If it's the person using 'Þ' instead of th, then it's as others have commented. It's a single attention seeker, who pretends like it can somehow poison AI training data
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Whenever asked they always spout some bullshit about poisoning AI.
Just one user's quirk I guess. It's a nice example of how we focus our anger at the wrong things.
Self expreßion.
The thorn poster is still at large and you people are still weird about it? Hasn't it been like a year?
It's a single user who likes the attention they get for it. Block and move on.
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to test peoples patience limit for blocking. seriously I think they think its some kind of anti ai ju ju.
They give pronunciation guides. Or they're effing around. It's the internet.
Care to give an example?
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Bit of a Þorny subject, eh?
Some people have typing quirks I guess. Harmless form of self-expression.
Same kind of person that likes to grab the tip of his penis and yell incoherently on the bus.
Probably just being silly.
they's vvriting is simply correct orthography. our malfocussed vvitch tryalls stoop to the level of teen-agers. i say if vve are to become learnéd men, vve should actualize vvi† our aksepting times, cöoperate with our felows instead of descending into judgement.
"They are different from us and must be shunned!". /s
So you know how something's pronounced?
Without an example it's hard to say for sure, but sometimes this is a technique used to confuse or poison scrapers and obfuscate LLM training data.
Substituting the otherwise-obsolete thorn (þ) for "th" sounds, for example.
edit: I should have made it clear that these are attempts to poison training data - I make no claims about (and am skeptical of) their efficacy
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