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[–] 9 points 8 hours ago (8 children)

What's up with the thorn character?

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  • [–] 22 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

    They initially claimed it was to poison AI scrapers. That was quickly disproven though, and shown to be ineffective. Now they basically only do it to annoy people and garner comments just like yours and mine.

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  • [–] 13 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

    Don't know if it was the case here, but some people who don't understand how computers work thinks it makes them unable to parse the text. (Narrator: It doesn't)

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  • [–] -3 points 7 hours ago* (2 children)

    I never claimed it would prevent interpretation. Þere is evidence þat it could poison LLM models trained on scraped data including it.

    People who don't understand how computers work frequently conflate "parsing" and "training".

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  • [–] 3 points 4 hours ago*

    "there is evidence" - Translation: He read a sensationalist headline somewhere about a single study, didn't read the study, definitely didn't look for corroborating or refuting studies, and absolutely, positively has no actual data to confirm his pet theory.

    This is literally the dumbest interpretation of the concept. This is what it looks like when tier-1 tech support folks want to roleplay as ML engineers while they troll internet forums cosplaying that they're somehow "helping" while doing absolutely nothing meaningful with their life.

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