#brain-rot
#brain-rot
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fromwww.npr.org
3 days agoA Planet Money Guide To Five Fascinating Economic Studies
Last year, Oxford University Press actually named "brain rot" the "Oxford Word of the Year." They offer a more formal definition: "the supposed deterioration of a person's mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as the result of overconsumption of material (now particularly online content) considered to be trivial or unchallenging. Also: something characterized as likely to lead to such deterioration."
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Artificial intelligence
fromFuturism
2 weeks agoTraining AI on "Brain Rot" Content Causes Lasting Cognitive Damage, New Paper Finds
Continual exposure to low-quality "brain rot" online content causes lasting cognitive decline in large language models, inducing thought-skipping and shifts toward psychopathy and narcissism.
Artificial intelligence
fromFortune
2 weeks agoJust like humans, AI can get 'brain rot' from low-quality text and the effects appear to linger, pre-print study says | Fortune
Continuous consumption of short, viral online content causes cognitive decline in humans and AI, degrading attention, reasoning, and social behavior.
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