Will AI end up destroying itself? This isn't alarmist talk.

Right now, AI tools are eliminating creative labor a hundred times faster than they're paying creators. Your art, your writing, your music—all fed into training datasets, without authorization, without credit, and certainly without revenue sharing. If this issue isn't resolved, the entire AI ecosystem is bound to collapse sooner or later.

Projects like $TAO and $OCEAN are at least trying: enabling AI to scale compliantly within a crypto-native environment. But technical architecture alone isn't enough; the core issue is that **creators’ rights are being systematically diluted**.

Is anyone working on solutions? Yes.
The logic is straightforward:
• Creators first register their IP on-chain
• AI agents handle authorization automatically
• Royalties are settled transparently and in real time

Sounds idealistic? But this might be the only way out. Either AI learns to “borrow legally,” or it will face collective resistance from creators. After all, nobody wants to be free fuel for AI—especially when these AIs are turning around and making money.

The way we feed AI has to change. Not predatory harvesting, but collaborative licensing. On-chain royalties aren’t a gimmick; they’re a necessary condition for keeping this system running.

The intersection of AI and IP is the new battleground.