LLMs can get "brain rot"

Isn't this just garbage in garbage out with an attention grabbing title?

Yes, I am concerned about the Computer Science profession

>"“Brain Rot” for LLMs isn’t just a catchy metaphor—it reframes data curation as cognitive hygiene for AI"

A metaphor is exactly what it is because not only do LLMs not possess human cognition, there's certainly no established science of thinking they're literally valid subjects for clinical psychological assessment.

How does this stuff get published, this is basically a blog post. One of the worse aspects of the whole AI craze is that is has turned a non-trivial amount of academia into a complete cargo cult joke.

It is a blog post, it was published as a Github page and on arXiv.

I think it's intended as a catchy warning to people who are dumping every piece of the internet (and synthetic data based on it!) that there are repercussions.