Emma Lembke joined Instagram at age 12. Soon, she found herself “scrolling mindlessly for hours, addicted to gaining a certain number of likes, a certain number of comments.” She often wanted to stop ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I examine how human-AI collaborations are ...

“Brain rot,” Oxford’s Word of the Year in 2024, refers to both the mental degradation from consuming too much unchallenging or trivial content online and to the content itself. Even though “brain rot” ...

A new multi-university study warns that large language models trained on low-quality, engagement-driven data can suffer irreversible declines in reasoning and ethical judgment, a phenomenon ...

From its humble beginnings as YouTube content like skibidi toilet to the more exotic Italian iterations exemplified by TikTok’s Ballerina Cappuccina and Tralalero Tralala, brain rot has entered the ...

If you don’t know the term “brain rot” by now, congratulations! You probably don’t have it. It’s slang to describe the idea that being “very online” is harming our brains. It also describes the ...