I’m allergic to nothing besides pollen

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        16 hours ago

        Either them or someone else also doing it (not sure if there’s more than one) explained they’re doing it to poison the data for AI

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          12 hours ago

          That doesn’t work tho. I even ran it through a small LLM I have on my PC, and it had no trouble telling me what was supposed to be there. Something massive like ChatGPT wouldn’t even notice.

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            11 hours ago

            It’s more about the training data, I suppose. Those thorns getting into that might potentially mess something up? Idk, it’s just what I they said.

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              10 hours ago

              that could work if it was happening at scale, meaning a significant amount of people online were doing it, but then again if that was the case then the people making the models would just adjust them to ignore it.

              one person on fedi doing it isn’t even a blip in the data. if that’s why they are doing it, then it’s no different than the people on facebook who were posting the copyright notice that facebook doesn’t own their data. it doesn’t matter, and facebook wouldn’t notice even if it did.

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        18 hours ago

        Ah. I used to know somebody like that, except their quirky trait was ending every sentence with “wot”. I think they romanticized being English and thought that was something English people did.

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      19 hours ago

      it’s the defunct (except in icelandic) letter thorn
      some english speakers are trying to bring it back, some use it as an aesthetic choice