AI Models Get Brain Rot, Too

And now, for something completely different, there's this elucidating yet not really surprising tidbit (courtesy of Wired):

A new study from the University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&M, and Purdue University shows that large language models fed a diet of popular but low-quality social media content experience a kind of “brain rot” that may be familiar to anyone who has spent too long doomscrolling on X or TikTok.
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The models fed junk text experienced a kind of AI brain rot—with cognitive decline including reduced reasoning abilities and degraded memory. The models also became less ethically aligned and more psychopathic according to two measures.
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https://www.wired.com/story/ai-models-social-media-cognitive-decline-study (AI Models Get Brain Rot, Too)