A new study from Texas A&M, UT Austin, and Purdue University warns that large language models (LLMs) trained on low-quality, engagement-driven content can suffer lasting cognitive decline—a phenomenon ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The effects that short-form "junk" content has on LLMs reveal how this is not a problem for just some members of society ...

A new study on large language models warns that continual exposure to low-quality, engagement-driven data can cause lasting declines in reasoning and ethical performance, a phenomenon dubbed 'brain ...

A recent paper found that AI can experience "brain rot." Models underperform after ingesting "junk data." Users can test for these four warning signs. You know that oddly drained yet overstimulated ...

It's kind of this simple. If you have someone else do work for you, your skills will worsen over time with respect to doing that work yourself. Seems obvious when stated that way, right? Nevertheless, ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are worse at retrieving accurate information and reasoning when trained on large amounts of low-quality content, particularly if the content is popular on social ...

Medical education is once again in the midst of a technological inflection point. Large language models (LLMs) can now pass licensing-style exams, draft clinical notes, simulate patients, and tutor ...

If you’ve spent much time on TikTok recently, you may have noticed a strange new type of AI brain rot taking over: fruit dramas. These AI-generated short dramas feature odd-looking anthropomorphic ...