21st June 2025
Is it safe to say that LLMs are, in essence, making us "dumber"?
No! Please do not use the words like “stupid”, “dumb”, “brain rot”, "harm", "damage", and so on. It does a huge disservice to this work, as we did not use this vocabulary in the paper, especially if you are a journalist reporting on it.
— FAQ for Your Brain on ChatGPT, a paper that has attracted a lot of low quality coverage
Recent articles
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- Anthropic's Project Glasswing - restricting Claude Mythos to security researchers - sounds necessary to me - 7th April 2026
- The Axios supply chain attack used individually targeted social engineering - 3rd April 2026