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Kevin Okemwa

Sam Altman was right, the 'Dead Internet Theory' could kill the web within 3 years — "LLMs can suffer from brain rot!"

Young Teen in front of a laptop computer and on a bed, night time student.

Generative AI has evolved, scaling greater heights across a wide range of fields in computing, education, medicine, and more. The technology has come a long way from the early days, where it was synonymous with hallucinations and generating outright incorrect responses to queries.

As you may know, top AI labs like Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and more are heavily dependent on content uploaded and otherwise shared by humans on the internet to train their LLMs (large language models). Last year, a report suggested that these companies had hit a wall due to a lack of high-quality content for training, preventing them from developing advanced AI models.

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