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Story summary
- Studies from Texas A&M University, the University of Texas at Austin, and Purdue University show humans and AI suffer from 'brain rot'.
- Large language models trained on trivial social posts experience permanent cognitive degradation, losing reasoning and ethical alignment.
- Attempts to retrain these models with high-quality data have failed to reverse the damage.
- The findings highlight risks that AI systems consuming low-quality content could drive a cycle of diminishing intelligence.
