▲ 181 ▼ ‘It’s magic’: scientists rediscover how to make ancient Roman colour-changing glass (www.theguardian.com) submitted 9 hours ago by Orwi@programming.dev to c/science@lemmy.world 26 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] virku@lemmy.world 9 points 8 hours ago (8 children) What's up with the thorn character? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 8 child comments replies: [–] Carl@anarchist.nexus 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Pissmidget@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago I just figured it was ye old sunk cost fallacy at this point. I figure if it makes them happy there's more harmful ways to make an ass out of oneself. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Sxan@piefed.zip -2 points 7 hours ago That was quickly disproven though, and shown to be ineffective It was not. If you have evidence it was, go ahead and link it - here's my evidence it can. Research article in collaboration wiþ Anthropic More research demonstrating effective poisoning wiþ tiny amounts of data permalink fedilink source parent [–] Pissmidget@lemmy.world 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) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] Sxan@piefed.zip -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". permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Wakko@hell.cloud 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. permalink fedilink source parent [–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 1 point 4 hours ago Is there a reason you don’t use an eth (ð) where appropriate? permalink fedilink source parent [–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 8 points 7 hours ago þey þink þat þis þing þeems þmart þut iþ þo þucking þumb permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Carl@anarchist.nexus 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Pissmidget@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago I just figured it was ye old sunk cost fallacy at this point. I figure if it makes them happy there's more harmful ways to make an ass out of oneself. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Sxan@piefed.zip -2 points 7 hours ago That was quickly disproven though, and shown to be ineffective It was not. If you have evidence it was, go ahead and link it - here's my evidence it can. Research article in collaboration wiþ Anthropic More research demonstrating effective poisoning wiþ tiny amounts of data permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Pissmidget@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago I just figured it was ye old sunk cost fallacy at this point. I figure if it makes them happy there's more harmful ways to make an ass out of oneself. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Sxan@piefed.zip -2 points 7 hours ago That was quickly disproven though, and shown to be ineffective It was not. If you have evidence it was, go ahead and link it - here's my evidence it can. Research article in collaboration wiþ Anthropic More research demonstrating effective poisoning wiþ tiny amounts of data permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Pissmidget@lemmy.world 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) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] Sxan@piefed.zip -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". permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Wakko@hell.cloud 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. permalink fedilink source parent [–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 1 point 4 hours ago Is there a reason you don’t use an eth (ð) where appropriate? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Sxan@piefed.zip -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". permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Wakko@hell.cloud 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. permalink fedilink source parent [–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 1 point 4 hours ago Is there a reason you don’t use an eth (ð) where appropriate? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Wakko@hell.cloud 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 1 point 4 hours ago Is there a reason you don’t use an eth (ð) where appropriate? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 8 points 7 hours ago þey þink þat þis þing þeems þmart þut iþ þo þucking þumb permalink fedilink source parent