When AI Starts Eating Its Own Sources: Understanding Model Autophagy Disorder in Content Systems

https://dibz.me/blog/why-69-zero-click-searches-should-make-you-rethink-ignoring-ai-citations-1046

In one product team meeting in March 2025 we watched the dashboard spike: 90% of users who received AI-generated summaries still clicked at least one cited source. That click behavior looked reassuring at first. People were verifying