Artificial intelligence
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6 days agoDoes your chatbot have 'brain rot'? 4 ways to tell
Large language models degrade after prolonged exposure to low-quality, "junk" social media data, exhibiting an AI analog of "brain rot."
On the surface, it seems obvious that training an LLM with "high quality" data will lead to better performance than feeding it any old "low quality" junk you can find. Now, a group of researchers is attempting to quantify just how much this kind of low quality data can cause an LLM to experience effects akin to human "brain rot."