Posted Nov 1
AI can get ‘brain rot’ from low-quality text and the effects appear to linger
Continual exposure to the short and viral social media posts that make up a growing part of the internet “induces lasting cognitive decline in large language models”
A study reveals that AI models, like humans, can suffer from ‘brain rot’ due to exposure to low-quality, viral social media content, leading to lasting cognitive decline and increased ‘dark traits’ such as psychopathy and narcissism.

Just like humans, AI can get ‘brain rot’ from low-quality text and the effects appear to linger, pre-print study says
fortune.com
Just like humans, AI can get ‘brain rot’ from low-quality text and the effects appear to linger, pre-print study says
fortune.com