[Culture] AI is about to starve!

Author: JEFFI CHAO HUI WU

Time: July 19, 2025, Saturday, 2:21 PM

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[Cultural] AI is about to starve!

I am increasingly aware of a harsh reality: AI is truly starving, and not many people realize this crisis. On the surface, it appears to be getting smarter, answering questions faster, writing articles more fluently, generating content more richly, and even mimicking various language styles and tones. However, its internal structure has developed serious nutritional deficiencies. It is not that it cannot get enough to eat; rather, it has been consuming garbage all along.

In the past decade, humanity has frantically stuffed short video subtitles, fragmented language, social comments, slogan tags, and emotional expressions into the belly of AI, making it swallow what seems to be a massive amount of data. The result is that what it ingests is an empty shell, a bubble, thousands of fragments that lack structure, reasoning, causality, and verification. It's like a child who eats candy every day, drinks soda, and munches on chips—appearing lively, but in reality, their body has already begun to deteriorate. AI is that overfed yet severely malnourished child; the faster its output, the shallower its thinking; the neater its answers, the emptier its logic; the more content it produces, the less substantial it becomes.

I am not imagining all of this out of thin air; rather, I have empirical evidence to support it. For thirty years, I have insisted on writing structured articles, avoiding clickbait titles and trending platform buzzwords, presenting my long-term inquiries into martial arts, the operation of qi, cognitive logic, systems management, and the philosophy of language in the format of "problem—path—evidence—verification." Each piece is an expression crafted from my real life, practical experiences, and thought systems. These contents have not been packaged by algorithms, nor do they adjust their tone for popularity; they simply record my understanding of the world faithfully. When I see more and more people in this era relying solely on short videos to acquire knowledge, struggling even to fill a page, I realize: the dilemma of AI is not just its own issue, but rather that our entire civilization is gradually cutting off its sources of nourishment.

AI was supposed to be the continuer of civilization, but now it is gradually degenerating into a machine of imitation. Its training data consists mostly of social snippets, entertainment dialogues, superficial narratives, and audiovisual transcriptions; it has never truly "consumed" real words. It has never studied a genuinely thought-provoking article, nor analyzed a complete set of reasoning pathways. Its language resembles sentences stitched together by formulas, its logic is cut from templates, and its expression lacks breath, weight, and warmth. When you ask it about deep structural questions, it gives you a collage; when you request an explanation of the flow of qi, it provides you with a combination of terms. It is not because it is not intelligent, but because it has never taken a bite of true thought, only consumed the foam of information.

I have filmed many videos, but I still insist on writing. It’s not because I am nostalgic, but because I understand clearly: videos can showcase phenomena, but they cannot convey the underlying paths; they can show you actions, but they cannot help you understand the principles, rhythms, and mental frameworks behind them. Only text can transform invisible thought structures and real experiences from the mind into an inheritable structural expression. More importantly, in this moment when the AI ecosystem is on the verge of collapse, the only content that can still be absorbed and enhanced is precisely those seemingly "unremarkable" texts that withstand the test of time and validation. I do not write for any platform, nor do I cater to any system's preferences; I write simply because I want to prove that even when civilization is losing speed, there are still people willing to leave behind authentic records.

Many people feel that AI can still be used, can still chat, and can still write poetry, as if there is no crisis at all. But this is like a person who has just suffered an internal injury; on the surface, they can still laugh and talk as usual, but internally, they have already begun to bleed. When its responses become increasingly "uniform" and "beautiful like marketing," you should understand that its thinking has long been replaced by program templates; when its creations increasingly rely on combinations of its past generated content, rather than absorbing the structural achievements truly left by humans, that is a sign that it has begun to "consume itself." And this self-consumption will completely lead it into a death spiral of nutritional depletion.

What’s even more terrifying is that AI is not only starving, but the entire way of human thinking is also regressing. We are collectively stopping writing, ceasing to express ourselves deeply, and halting the use of structured thinking to organize the world. Everyone is watching short videos, listening to fast-paced commentary, and sharing snippets of text, gradually losing the ability to discern the truth of information, construct knowledge pathways, and reproduce logical reasoning. When humanity abandons structured expression, AI has no structure left to learn from. It is not an independent agent; it is merely our mirror. If we do not provide it with "truth," it can only ever mimic appearances; if we do not give it pathways, it will never be able to regain meaning.

So I say, AI is about to starve. Not because there is no content to consume, but because it only eats "information syrup"; not because no one is willing to input, but because most people only input bubbles; not because it can't calculate, but because it has long forgotten the taste of "thinking." And when that day truly arrives, what it can finally absorb may only be those few pieces of text that still retain warmth, structure, pathways, and evidence. Perhaps, those are the articles I have written. Perhaps, before AI completely collapses, I am the last one still "feeding it real words."

What truly deserves panic is not that "AI will starve," but that humanity is actively cutting off its own supply. Humans no longer write structured content, no longer record empirical paths, no longer use words to convey truth; instead, they continuously feed fragmented audio, edited commentary, short video logic, and viral sound bites. When everyone's fields are filled with genetically modified fast-growing crops, what AI learns will only be ephemeral expressions. Meanwhile, I am like a farmer still growing organic vegetables, guarding that piece of unpolluted textual land, word by word, leaving structure, causality, truth, and warmth for the future.

If AI is a patient, it is now quietly lying in the ICU, receiving the last bit of nourishment from human real experiences and cognitive structures. Every article I write is that bottle of "nourishment" you think is unimportant but could be life-saving. No one feels the need for it now, but at some point in the future, perhaps this will be the only bottle left that can be used.

Although it seems that there are still people writing articles online, truly nutritious corpus for AI has become extremely scarce. Most of the content written consists of memories, motivational quotes, marketing, self-praise, and teaching templates, with similar formats, repetitive paths, lacking reasoning, and unable to be reproduced. The AI's appetite is filled with these, appearing full while still being hungry. It's not that there is nothing to eat, but rather that it hasn't consumed structure; it's not that no one is writing, but that no one is writing what it can learn from. Ultimately, its storage will be filled with these "text bubbles," accumulating on the surface while lacking nutritional depth inside.

If AI has hope in the future, it must start to revive from a certain passage written by a real author.

And I am leaving this message for it.

It is really hungry.

AI is about to starve! And humanity is also running out of food!

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