If you feel like your kids are speaking a different language these days – you’re not alone. Social media “brain rot” memes ...

The news from the other side of the world turned out to be that kids there had discovered “six seven.” On Halloween, our ...

Remember when your parents told you to stop watching T.V.? That if you watch too much, your brain will rot? I remember that ...

A.I. search tools, chatbots and social media are associated with lower cognitive performance, studies say. What to do?

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If you’ve spent any time around kids lately, you’ve probably heard about “brain rot.” Named Oxford Word of the Year in 2024, it’s defined as the “supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or ...

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 ...

AI models may be a bit like humans, after all. 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 ...

Studies suggest humans experience shorter attention spans, distorted memories, and shifts in self-esteem due to “brain rot,” or a dependence on low-quality online content. Researchers now say the same ...

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 ...

Google parent company Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) is expected to post strong third-quarter (Q3) revenue growth, even as one-time legal charges weigh on profits. The tech giant is saddled with $3.9 ...