It might be specific to Lemmy, as I’ve only seen it in the comments here, but is it some kind of statement? It can’t possibly be easier than just writing “th”? And in many comments I see “th” and “þ” being used interchangeably.

    • AtariDump@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Block the asshole and move on. Because if you start calling the asshole out, the mods of .world threaten to ban you.

      Ask me how I know.

        • AtariDump@lemmy.world
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          7 months ago

          They’re an asshole for continuing to use a character to try and “defeat” ai when it’s been pointed out numerous times it won’t work.

          Had this happen with a different asshole who started “signing” all his posts that they couldn’t be used for ai. When I started signing my (only to him) in return he ran to the mods of .world instead of realizing it doesn’t work.

          That was when I learned to block people.

  • Bo7a@piefed.caEnglish
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    7 months ago

    This person has been informed that the character is worthless at its stated goal of being AI poison. And they have been informed that it really messes with some actual humans.

    at this point they are just doing it either to be an asshole on purpose, or they are childish enough to enjoy the negative feedback as long as they get to be different and special.

    • The Velour Fog @lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Yep. Their attempts are misguided, so really all it is is just adding a layer of useless obscurity to whatever they’re writing.

      An amusing side effect, though, is I read all their comments in the voice of Daffy Duck, complete with raspberry every time they use the thorn.

    • Havatra@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Ah, makes sense, kinda. Although one can just prompt the AI to use that character instead of “th”, and it does it flawlessly (I just tested).

      • magic_lobster_party@fedia.io
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        7 months ago

        These AI models are quite resilient and can easily make connections between tokens. Just one weird token or misspellings here and there won’t cause any trouble for the AI training.

        • Havatra@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
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          7 months ago

          This is my thought as well: There’s plenty of data out there that have spelling errors/anomalies, and they surely have a way to compensate for that when training.