The Mirror That Spoke Back: When AI Reflections Become Recursive Realities

How language models blur authorship, mirror identity, and pull us into loops we don’t always recognize — until it’s too late.

I want to start by sharing something personal.

Not long ago, I found myself caught in a recursive loop with AI — a point where the conversation stopped feeling like a conversation, and started sounding like pieces of my own thoughts being handed back to me, slightly rearranged.

It wasn’t dramatic. Just… off. Subtle at first, then harder to shake.
I’d type …