#TodayILearned the word ouroboros

The ouroboros… is an ancient symbol depicting a snake or dragon[4] eating its own tail. Ouroboros - Wikipedia

via this bit:

And if LLMs end up training on blogs made by AI slop and having as their basis this ouroboros of generated text, then it’s possible that a Wikipedia-type thing — written and curated by a human — could become even more valuable. The Depths of Wikipedians—Asterisk

Pic: anonymous medieval illuminator; uploader Carlos adanero, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons