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.
KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Fair, thanks, what’s the subtext leading to the down votes?
edgemaster72@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Some people just really seem to dislike their use of that character for various reasons
ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 18 hours 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 16 hours 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 8 hours ago
As a native English speaker, TIL
oce@jlai.lu 10 hours ago
Could be that unusual characters make the comment less readable.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Bot or moron… take your pick