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[–] MalachaiConstant 49 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Everyone who neglected to add the "/s" has become an unwitting data poisoner

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Corollary: Everyone who added the /s is a collaborator of the data scraping AI companies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

@MalachaiConstant Or they're a Perl or bash programmer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

@MalachaiConstant @dumbass I'd be interested to know how few corpus linguists are actually doing LLM research

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

@MalachaiConstant @cstross what about the federal statisticians who slip /s into their online reports?