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LLMs can get "brain rot"

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466 points tamnd | 1 comments | 21 Oct 25 14:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | source
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gaogao ◴[21 Oct 25 17:46 UTC] No.45658984[source]▶
Brain rot texts seems reasonably harmful, but brain rot videos are often surreal and semantically dense in a way that probably improves performance (such as discussed on this German brain rot analysis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mJENuEN_rs&t=37s). For example, Švankmajer is basically proto-brainrot, but is also the sort of thing you'd watch in a museum and think about.

Basically, I think the brain rot aspect might be a bit of terminology distraction here, when it seems what they're measuring is whether it's a puff piece or dense.

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1. moritzwarhier ◴[21 Oct 25 17:52 UTC] No.45659097[source]▶
For this reason, I believe thar the current surge we see in AI use for people manipulation (art is also a form of manipulation, even if unintended) is much more important than their hyped usage as a technical information processors.

Brainrot created by LLMs is important to worry about, their design as "people pleasers".

Their anthropomorphization can be scary too, no doubt.