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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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People used to sprinkle numbers into text for 1337 h4x0r talk. I think search engines didn’t work with it; maybe AI training doesn’t either

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Maybe sprinkling 1337 into our online texts would make them less useful to AI training

No, it wouldn't.

I think search engines didn’t work with it;

No, they worked fine. It doesn't take much for a computer program (especially search engines and chatbots) to recognize two words spelled differently have similar meanings.

Go misspell anything into a search engine, whichever you use, and notice how it suggests a correct spelling.

So if a few people try this, it's not enough to have an effect. If enough people to have an effect do it, then the program quickly learns leetspeak.

But that doesn't stop people from constantly having this idea