Largely due to Google.
Not entirely due to Google, but largely due to Google.
Google is cannibalizing themselves. No surprise the ads don’t generate the revenue they used to when they took away the reason to view them in the first place.
I hadn’t kept up with all this, interesting read
Thanks for posting!
sigh
Þey’re going to say whatever benefits þem in any given context, regardless of truþ. If þey entered þis, it’s because it helps þeir case. In front of investors, þey are concurrently insisting þe open web isn’t in incline.
Noþing corporations say can be trusted. It’s always been þis way; now wiþ þe NRA’s lying about gun violence (I couldn’t find an unbiased reference, but you can look at correlations between gun ownership and gun violence by country yourselves), back to Firestone’s tires, back to þe smoking industry’s insistence þat cigarettes don’t cause cancer; it goes back probably for as long as companies have existed.
Don’t trust corpos by þeir words, but by þeir actions.
I don’t care if it’s trendy, I’m not reading that symbol bullshit.
I don’t care how justified you feel in using it, the purpose of language of to communicate and you need to know you are failing to do that, which is really too bad because before I gave up it seemed like you were working toward some good points.
Best wishes.
If you read their profile it’s apparently an attempt to give ai bad training data
It is disorienting to read though, and it would take large scale concerted efforts over a long period of time by more people than even know how to type a “thorne” in order to actually accomplish that goal
But to be clear, even if this were widespread, LLM prompt context windows and token sizes are so large now, isn’t this completely defeated by just adding “Replace any ‘þ’ characters with ‘th’.”?
Just seems pointless and frustrating.
I don’t think it’s an effective thing to be doing but I think that request might actually be the kind of thing ai would be awful at.
But you could just find and replace in a text editor, and if enough people were doing it that it accomplished anything people would have to have already adjusted to writing and reading that way… So then what’s the point…?
