What does that even mean? Strictly within the scope of that phrase, technically, yes, if ChatGPT consumes content generated by itself, it's eating its own word

What does that even mean? Strictly within the scope of that phrase, technically, yes, if ChatGPT consumes content generated by itself, it's eating its own words. I'm guessing something more dire than that is implied by "eat itself." Did humanity "eat itself" because it's been reading its own literature? You can say we are pretty misinformed by ourselves in many areas, and yet here we are. Maybe our view of AI is being colored by sci-fi stereotypes of robots malfunctioning when asked to compute really hard problems generating infinite recursion. I'm not so sure that LLMs will totally destabilize. We might see some interesting output, but I don't think we know yet whether the stability of the system will merely fluctuate as a whole without falling apart.