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Wait, why are you using the þ character? I understand how to read it, but you're the first person(?) I've seen use it conversationally.
Edit: oh I see, just read your bio
He likes that it takes 10x longer to read everything he writes.
Skill issue
Every time I come across it, it becomes a little less painful.
That person seems to be everywhere too!
Canonically he does it to honor his master.
…People on here have bios?
FWIW, it doesn't work. The preprocessing for LLM training isn't going to be fooled by that. It's just making things harder for everyone to read.
Hmm, seriously? Does it also ignore zalgo text?
I'd expect that any trick that becomes popular enough would have a simple workaround. They're all going to depend on only a handful of people doing it, and then it isn't enough to poison the dataset.
Is there a way or is just guessing? I’m out of the loop.
It's thorn, so it's literally just a th