Clickbait Gives AI Models ‘Brain Rot,’ Researchers Find

If you think scrolling the internet all day is making you dumber, just imagine what it’s doing to large language models that consume a near-endless stream of absolute trash crawled from the web in the name of “training.” A research team recently proposed and tested a theory called “LLM Brain Rot Hypothesis,” which posited that the more junk data is fed into an AI model, the worse its outputs would become. Turns out that is a pretty solid theory, as a preprint paper published to arXiv…