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LLMs can get "brain rot"

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Re: LLMs can get "brain rot"

#51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The brainrot apologists have arrived

Why shouldn't the author use LLMs to assist their writing?

The issue is how tools are used, not that they are used at all.

Re: LLMs can get "brain rot"

#52
post #47

“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.

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.

If you can’t understand the irony inherent in getting an LLM to write about LLM brainrot, itself an analog for human brainrot that arises by the habitual non use of the human brain, then I’m not sure what to tell you.

Whether it’s a tsunami and whether most people will do it has no relevance to my expectation that researchers of LLMs and brainrot shouldn’t outsource their own thinking and creativity to an LLM in a paper that itself implies that using LLMs causes brainrot.

Re: LLMs can get "brain rot"

#53
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.

Re: LLMs can get "brain rot"

#54
post #47

“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.

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.

What information is conveyed by this sentence?

Seems like none to me.

Re: LLMs can get "brain rot"

#55
post #47

“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.

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.

Nothing wrong with using LLMs—until every paragraph sounds like it’s A/B tested for LinkedIn virality. That’s the rot setting in.

The problem isn’t using AI—it’s sounding like AI trying to impress a marketing department. That’s when you know the loop’s closed.

Re: LLMs can get "brain rot"

#56
post #53

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 mi…

I do not think this is the case, there has been some research into brainrot videos for children[0], and it doesn't seem to trend positively. I would argue anything 'constructed' enough will not classify as far on the brainrot spectrum.

[0]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/traversmark/2024/05/17/why-kids...

Re: LLMs can get "brain rot"

#57
post #53

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 mi…

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.

Re: LLMs can get "brain rot"

#58
post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

If you can’t understand the irony inherent in getting an LLM to write about LLM brainrot, itself an analog for human brainrot that arises by the habitual non use of the human brain, then I’m not sure what to tell you. Whether it’s a tsunami and whether most people will do it has no relevance to my expectation that researchers of LLMs and brainrot shouldn’t outsource their own thinking and creativity to an LLM in a pa…

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Re: LLMs can get "brain rot"

#60
post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

If you can’t understand the irony inherent in getting an LLM to write about LLM brainrot, itself an analog for human brainrot that arises by the habitual non use of the human brain, then I’m not sure what to tell you. Whether it’s a tsunami and whether most people will do it has no relevance to my expectation that researchers of LLMs and brainrot shouldn’t outsource their own thinking and creativity to an LLM in a pa…

What you are obsessing with is about the writer's style, not its substance. How sure are you if they outsourced the thinking to LLMs? Do you assume LLMs produce junk-level contents, which contributes human brain rot? What if their contents are of higher quality like the game of Go? Wouldn't you rather study their writing?
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