AI content is everywhere period, conditioning people and other AI in the propagation of more AI content.

I started to see articles about mycorrhizal fungi pop up on sites and LLMs. In January of 2026 an evolutionary biologist won a prize regarding the fungi, there were some interviews and media items surrounding it. But then I could trace the original media items to AI content aggregators, which led to other AI generated posts about mycorrhizal fungi, and some of that entered LLM training data, causing LLMs to bring up the topic.

And here I am, a human, writing about it, which may get consumed into training pipelines and help disseminate the idea into the future even further.