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Oct 23, 2025 1 hr

LLMs can get brain rot too

from Pretrained Hosted by Pierce Freeman & Richard Diehl Martinez

Articles written by LLMs have stabilized at exactly 50% of the internet (at least - so far as our classifiers can discriminate), the price of embedding models, OpenAI announces a new job board and certification programs for applied AI, Amazon releases the public availability of Bedrock AgentCore, and how pre-training on low quality data affects the capability of post-training. Further reading: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.13928 https://openai.com/index/expanding-economic-opportunity-with-ai/ https://www.tensoreconomics.com/p/why-are-embeddings-so-cheap https://graphite.io/five-percent/more-articles-are-now-created-by-ai-than-humans

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  1. 0:00 024
  2. 0:27 Intro
  3. 1:43 AI Content Online - Quantifying the Slop Factor
  4. 9:52 Embedding Models - Why They're So Cheap
  5. 25:56 OpenAI Certification Program and Jobs Portal
  6. 38:49 AWS Bedrock Agent Core Launch
  7. 47:25 LLMs Can Get Brain Rot Too
  8. 56:49 Concluding Thoughts

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