AI chatbots are slowly choking humanity as research shows a 'vicious cycle' could cause global knowledge collapse

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AI chatbots appear to be providing less diverse responses, research claims

Displaying the same answers has been likened to globalisation, where the same products and brands are available everywhere

Such a move may increase convenience, but also reduce diversity

Could we be heading into a real-world Idiocracy? A repeated reliance on AI to provide answers – invariably the same answers, offering the same views – could be shrinking human knowledge, a new study has claimed.