I mean... Yeah... It is that bad.

Wait... What? A Christmas tree... Now?

Haha. It is ridiculously fun to drive, so it’s really annoying that Elon has ruined it for me!

These window stickers do make it a little more tolerable to drive though. 😄

At this point, I can’t tell if I laugh because it’s hysterical, or if it’s me that’s hysterical!

Well, this post just got way more terrifying. Now there is evidence AI can, and will, resist shutdown commands. 😅 bsky.app/profile/crai...

I have reported it, but Apple provide no way to receive updates or track progress. So I guess I’ll have to just keep hoping with every update haha

Thanks, but unfortunately this doesn't seem to work either. 😩

So yeah, guess this means X continues to be a terrible place to get information, for both people and machines!

Sources:
• llm-brain-rot.github.io
• www.business-standard.com/technology/t...
• cryptoslate.com/the-un-dead-...
• www.indiatoday.in/technology/n...

The research warns we’re headed towards a “Zombie Internet”, where LLMs are training on dodgy content, generated by other compromised LLMs, fully embracing the term “viral content”.

What’s fascinating, is that LLMs have been designed to be so… human… that they seem to even experience the same brain rot and reasoning regression we’re seeing in people, who are often being manipulated and conditioned using the same awful content.

Attempts to fix them by retraining them with high-quality data didn’t work. The viral posts caused permanent damage to their internal knowledge-base, and fine-tuning doesn’t seem to be able to reverse it.

What’s really concerning, is that the models began “thought skipping”, meaning they cut corners when using reasoning capabilities. Monitoring showed that they also started to score higher for narcissism and psychopathy traits, and score lower on “agreeableness”.

Using “viral” content from posts on X (obviously), models trained exclusively on low-accuracy but popular content, reduced in accuracy from 74.9% to 57.2%, and their long-context understanding reduced from 84.4% to 52.3%.

Yeah. I have every setting in typing feedback toggled off ☹️

The author, Terry DeYoung, argues that from a Christian perspective, a keystone of American culture, which worships a god of justice and teaches people to stand with the oppressed, it’s difficult to understand how people can support the Trump administration in these actions.