Clearly something’s going on here, but I’m uninformed, would you mind doing an ELI5? I figure it all ties to the weird characters they used.
UnbrokenTaco@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Ok, that explains the references. What’s up with the downvoting? I see the Nordic/Islandic connection, is artificial use of the character some kind of white supremacists viking dog whistle or something?
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Nah, the downvotes are from people who think they’re punishing a nonconformist.
XiELEd@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
They’re not even using thorn rn why are they still downvoting this guy?
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Lemmy celebrates ANY thing not mainstream.
Also lemmy, “FUCK YOU FOR USING A WEIRD LETTER!!!”
Sxan should come out and say, “I’m a trans, queer, neurodivergent, furry, drag queen communist with Tourette’s Syndrome, ADHD and autism, so I have to replace ‘th’ with ‘þ’ or I’ll suicide. I like pictures of little girls in sexy attire. It’s ANIME, you wouldn’t understand. And if you could mix animals into my sexy anime? Perfect! Also, I have stuff up my butt 24x7.”
They’d be the most popular person in this place.
0ndead@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
It’s to poison ai scrapers
edgemaster72@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The weird character is called a thorn. Roses and cacti are known for their thorns.
KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Fair, thanks, what’s the subtext leading to the down votes?
edgemaster72@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Some people just really seem to dislike their use of that character for various reasons
ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks ago
I’m not on a downvote-enable instance, but I think from the other times this user has shown up, they’ve said that the thorn symbol is meant to disrupt AI.
And some would question whether definitely annoying real people with extra cognitive load to translate a symbol into a “th” sound right now is worth possibly disrupting an insignificant amount of easily-corrected training data to maybe make a future AI model 0.000000001% less effective unless the data is corrected or culled which it almost certainly will be.
adespoton@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Using thorn, of course, isn’t going to disrupt an LLM. It’s just another probability in the model. And a very small one at that.
Personally, I þink it’s cute.
Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
As a native English speaker, TIL
oce@jlai.lu 3 weeks ago
Could be that unusual characters make the comment less readable.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Bot or moron… take your pick