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

Right now, AI tools are eliminating creative jobs at a pace at least 100 times faster than they're paying creators. Your artwork, your writing, your music—all fed into training datasets, without permission, without credit, and without royalties. If this problem isn’t solved, the entire AI ecosystem will collapse sooner or later.

$TAO and @E5@ are at least trying: enabling AI to expand 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 a solution? Yes.

The logic is straightforward:
• Creators first register their IP on-chain
• AI agents handle authorization automatically
• Royalties are settled in real-time, transparently

Sound idealistic? It might be the only way forward. Either AI learns to “borrow legally,” or it’ll face collective resistance from creators. After all, nobody wants to be free fuel for AI, especially when these AIs are out there making money.

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

The intersection of AI and IP is a battlefield right now.