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This user expects to poison LLM scrapers by changing th to this symbol. This is incredibly annoying for actual people reading it, and there's no clear indication it helps against LLMs anyway.
whether or not it works doesn't matter to me; i find it fun and a bit charming
I don't know I kind of like it.
It's fun and makes my brain do a few pushups
Yeah wouldn't an llm just assume it was a typo and just match it with the closest word it thinks it is like it would do when you make a minor typo in a prompt anyway?
þ = th
How does a p equal th?
þ (thorn) is a character from Old English and some Scandinavian scripts. It represents the phonemes. Wiþ = with, þink = think.
Thorn can be used for both the voiced and voiceless (voiceless: thin, voiced: that), but ð (eth) can also be used for tge voiced version. Farðer = farther, ðose = those.
I quite like both, and the only reason I don't use them is because I haven't found a keyboard I can use them with.