@LiorOnAI
What a disturbing paper. Just like humans, LLMs can lose their thinking ability from consuming junk content. By feeding X-like viral tweets to top models, researchers triggered lasting cognitive decay. Retraining on junk tweets caused: -23% drop in reasoning (ARC Challenge) -38% drop in context understanding (RULER) Increased narcissism, reduced agreeableness Models skipped reasoning steps entirely All models tested (LLaMA-3, Qwen, Mistral) showed permanent degradation Partial detox with clean data failed to restore baseline