United Kingdom, Feb. 5 -- Artificial intelligence (AI) "increases the brain rot effect", according to one expert.

Alessandro Galeazzi, from the University of Padova in Italy, researches social media behaviour, and he's warned of the potential dangers of AI technology.

He told the BBC: "My feeling is that the flood of nonsense, low-quality content generated using AI might further reduce people's attention span."

Galeazzi suggested that an over-exposure to AI-generated content could harm our intellectual abilities.

He added: "I would say AI slop increases the brain rot effect, making people quickly consume content that they know is not only unlikely to be real, but probably not meaningful or interesting."

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