SwooshBakery624 [they/them]@programming.dev to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 days agoWhat's the deal with using phonetic symbols here on Lemmy?message-squaremessage-square29linkfedilinkarrow-up143arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up142arrow-down1message-squareWhat's the deal with using phonetic symbols here on Lemmy?SwooshBakery624 [they/them]@programming.dev to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 days agomessage-square29linkfedilinkfile-text
I’ve seen a few users who use phonetic symbols or something alike in their posts and comments. What’s the point?
minus-squarecall_me_xale@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down5·edit-214 days agoWithout 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
minus-squarethreeonefour@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up31·17 days agoI’m sure the companies that have scraped the entirety of the internet for training data have been foiled by that one user replacing some letters in their comments (but not their posts) on lemmy.
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
I’m sure the companies that have scraped the entirety of the internet for training data have been foiled by that one user replacing some letters in their comments (but not their posts) on lemmy.