Allow me to clarify, discussions and handwringing about brain-rot are in vogue. As I will soon show you, there is a whole lot of active and quite boisterous chatter about the impacts of social media on our brains, especially those of the younger generations, for which the dire exhortation is made that the flotsam of online Internet-fed videos and podcasts are turning all our minds into utter mush.
If you haven’t yet considered that facet, I’m proud to say that you are now about to get quite a telling about whether or not generative AI is going to cause massive large-scale widespread brain-rot.For my ongoing readers, in today’s column, I am continuing my ongoing series about the impact of generative AI in the health and medical realm.
Do not despair. Most speculations about brain-rot suggest that if you catch yourself before the rot has done its worst efforts, you can at least remain at a stalemate. Furthermore, you can thankfully undertake remedial action to overcome the brain rot that has occurred. There is hope. You can likely lift yourself out of the brain-rot abyss, though it is going to undoubtedly take concerted attention and hard work. Sorry, nothing in life is easy, including turning around brain-rot.
We can debate whether that transpired, though it seems evident that wholescale brain-rot did not seem to happen . It isn’t brand new. It isn’t a shocker. Only those who for whatever reason haven’t heard or seen it before might falsely think it is some clever new saying. That being said, certainly the interpretations and various ways of employing brain-rot as a descriptor have morphed to some degree.
“Recently, new games such as ‘Brain Training’ for the Nintendo DS have begun to counter the idea that games are pureAround that same time, the belief was voiced that people could explicitly perform mental gymnastics to hopefully stop the scourge of brain rot:, Alzheimer’s disease, and dementia.” .In a sense, of course, though we should be cautious in crying wolf about what drives or leads to brain rot. It is easy-peasy to refer to just about anything you want as causing brain rot.
“One brain rot behavior is doomscrolling, which involves long periods of searching for negative and distressing news online.” The customary means of achieving modern generative AI involves using a large language model or LLM as the key underpinning. . Generative AI destroys or at least mortally weakens your mind and prevents you from ever regaining your mental senses.