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fromThe New Yorker
2 weeks ago

Is "Six Seven" Really Brain Rot?

Children worldwide adopt and repeat nonsensical internet phrases like "six seven," showing how viral content and "brain rot" spread as playful social behavior and distraction.
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fromwww.npr.org
3 weeks ago

A Planet Money Guide To Five Fascinating Economic Studies

Last year, Oxford University Press actually named "brain rot" the "Oxford Word of the Year." They offer a more formal definition: "the supposed deterioration of a person's mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as the result of overconsumption of material (now particularly online content) considered to be trivial or unchallenging. Also: something characterized as likely to lead to such deterioration."
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Artificial intelligence
fromFuturism
1 month ago

Training AI on "Brain Rot" Content Causes Lasting Cognitive Damage, New Paper Finds

Continual exposure to low-quality "brain rot" online content causes lasting cognitive decline in large language models, inducing thought-skipping and shifts toward psychopathy and narcissism.
Artificial intelligence
fromFortune
1 month ago

Just like humans, AI can get 'brain rot' from low-quality text and the effects appear to linger, pre-print study says | Fortune

Continuous consumption of short, viral online content causes cognitive decline in humans and AI, degrading attention, reasoning, and social behavior.
fromPsychology Today
4 months ago

Why AI, Not Silly Videos, Might Be Brain Rot

Brain rot, now defined as a perceived loss of intelligence due to overconsumption of unchallenging content, lacks scientific evidence of cognitive harm.
Mental health
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