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LLMs can get "brain rot"

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avazhi ◴[] No.45658886[source]
“Studying “Brain Rot” for LLMs isn’t just a catchy metaphor—it reframes data curation as cognitive hygiene for AI, guiding how we source, filter, and maintain training corpora so deployed systems stay sharp, reliable, and aligned over time.”

An LLM-written line if I’ve ever seen one. Looks like the authors have their own brainrot to contend with.

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askafriend ◴[] No.45658899[source]
If it conveys the intended information then what's wrong with that? You're fighting a tsunami here. People are going to use LLMs to help their writing now and forever.
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grey-area ◴[] No.45660255[source]
It’s a text generator regurgitating plausible phrases without understanding and producing stale and meaningless pablum. It doesn’t even know what the intended information is, and judging from the above neither did the human involved.

It doesn’t help writing it stultifies and gives everything the same boring cheery yet slightly confused tone of voice.

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zer00eyz ◴[] No.45660653[source]
> It’s a text generator regurgitating plausible phrases without understanding and producing stale and meaningless pablum.

Are you describing LLM's or social media users?

Dont conflate how the content was created with its quality. The "You must be at least this smart (tall) to publish (ride)" sign got torn down years ago. Speakers corner is now an (inter)national stage and it written so it must be true...

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