AI Brain Rot: Can LLMs Lose Their Minds from Junk Data?

When AI Starts to Lose Its Mind: Inside the “Brain Rot” Crisis of Large Language Models By ProductMaster — October 2025 The Moment AI Stopped Thinking Straight In mid-October 2025, a group of researchers from Texas A&M, the University of Texas at Austin, and Purdue quietly dropped a bomb on arXiv. Their paper bore a headline that read like internet satire: “ “LLMs Can Get ‘Brain Rot’!” It wasn’t a meme. It was an experiment that cut to the core of how modern AI learns, fails, and possibly—decays. The team behind the study claims to have found the first systematic …