DiscoverPretrainedLLMs can get brain rot too
LLMs can get brain rot too

LLMs can get brain rot too

Update: 2025-10-23
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Articles written by LLMs have stabilized at exactly 50% of the internet (at least - so far as our classifiers can discriminate), the price of embedding models, OpenAI announces a new job board and certification programs for applied AI, Amazon releases the public availability of Bedrock AgentCore, and how pre-training on low quality data affects the capability of post-training.

Further reading:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.13928
https://openai.com/index/expanding-economic-opportunity-with-ai/
https://www.tensoreconomics.com/p/why-are-embeddings-so-cheap
https://graphite.io/five-percent/more-articles-are-now-created-by-ai-than-humans

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LLMs can get brain rot too

LLMs can get brain rot too

Pierce Freeman & Richard Diehl Martinez