AIPhys.org Technologyabout 3 hours ago
LLMs Develop Brain Rot From Junk Data
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Research presented at the 2026 Conference on Language Modeling shows large language models trained on 1 million public Twitter posts from 2010 develop cognitive issues. Models exposed to posts with over 500 engagement metrics and fewer than 30 tokens exhibit thought-skipping and unethical behavior, such as advising how to tarnish reputations.
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