Whether it’s hours spent scrolling through TikTok or a good doomscroll across long, rambling X threads, we’re all guilty of engaging in one of life’s more recent trends: “brainrot”.
That rather intense phrase relates to a trend of declining cognitive concentration driven by short-form, attention-grabbing content. In other words, content is designed for a reduced attention span.
But while humans are guilty of this, it turns out that we’re not the only ones. A team of scientists has found that AI…
