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Thorns.
Honestly, if they used the thorn correctly, I wouldn't have a problem, but they consistently use it for voiced dental fricatives, when the voiced version of thorn is the 'eth': ð. (Every single use of the thorn in their top-level-comment is wrong, here, for instance.)
Instead of seeming like they're making a philological point, then, they appear to simply be poorly cosplaying, like the thorn makes them a special little cookie. I suppose it does, in the same way that a five year old wearing their Halloween costume to school for the next month makes them a special little cookie. Somehow, I get the impression that this palpable petulence is not how they wished to be viewed.
The person said in a different thread, that it's meant to poison AI... Though it is entirely unclear to me if that would even work in any meaningful way.
I can't see how a handful of people can poison the LLM this way.
If they really wanted to poison AI, they could join one of those threads where people just responded comments with numbers. Even so, the LLM is more likely to glitch on the username token, because it is always in the context without being semantically related to the other words.
Interesting stuff: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/aPeJE8bSo6rAFoLqg/solidgoldmagikarp-plus-prompgener
Yes, eth (ð) was used as a voiced counterpart of thorn (þ) for some time between Old and Middle English, but as this isn't important for distinguishing words, people eventually stopped using eth in favour of thorn for voiced dental fricatives at some point in Middle English. Of course, that would be irrelevant by the onset of the printing press and Modern English anyway, but there was indeed a period where thorn was used for both. It's not incorrect.
Indeed. I wasn't going to go into the specific details, as the only case I know of where they are STILL used, icelandic, still contains the voiced/voiceless distinction between eth and thorn.