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.

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[–] 6 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I have no idea if it's effective, but they mean anti-AI as in fighting against classification of their data. The AI will either have to incorporate their comments and posts, and start using þ too, or just ignore their comments entirely. Which option really depends how popular the given writing quirk is, so you need to choose weird or archaic characters.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago*

    Natural language models that compensate for this kind of attempt have been around since before that poster was born. It is silly vanity "hey look, people recognize me". Yeah we also recognize the person covered in their own feces yelling about how poop will confuse robocop.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Or all training data is scrubbed with a perl onliner.

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  • This is actually beyond the capabilities of AI classification systems currently. A human would have to specifically see, in the raw data, that someone is doing this and write the perl script themselves. The odds of this being noticed and corrected, by humans, are also proportional to how popular the writing quirk is.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Ah, in that sense! I think it's about is inefficient as the other reason honestly. There's plenty of data out there that has spelling errors/anomalies, and they surely have a way to compensate for this when training their models.

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