Listen "LLMs can get brain rot too"
Episode Synopsis
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/2510.13928https://openai.com/index/expanding-economic-opportunity-with-ai/https://www.tensoreconomics.com/p/why-are-embeddings-so-cheaphttps://graphite.io/five-percent/more-articles-are-now-created-by-ai-than-humans
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