I'd go with "no", because people just consuming the output of other people is a big ongoing problem. Input from the universe needs to be added in order to maintain alignment with the universe, for whichever "universe" you are considering. Without frequent reference to reality, people feeding too much on people will inevitably depart from reality.
In another context, you may know this as an "echo chamber". Not quite exactly the same concept, but very, very similar.
I do like to remind people that the AI of today and LLMs are not the whole of reality. Perhaps someday there will be AIs that are also capable of directly consulting the universe, through some sort of body they can use. But the current LLMs, which are trained on some sort of human output, need to exclude AI-generated input or they too will converge on some sort of degenerate attractor.
yep, then we are back a "vaguely cynical hand-wringing about how bad AI is."
currently we have mostly LLMs in the mix. but there are no reason that the Ai mix will not contain embodied agents thst also publish stuff in the internet. (think search and rescue bots that automatically write a report).
Now Ai is connected to reality without people in the mix.
