Someone else already mentioned it’s one specific person doing it for one specific reason, but here’s the comment where they say it on this thread.
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KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 1 day agoIt’s not an anti AI thing and I have no idea why people keep repeating this misinformation
It’s an internet phenomenon, called Bring Back Thorn, which has been around since before LLMs became popular
JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 day ago
slazer2au@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Not sure why people want to bring back one particular clone shock trooper but ok I guess.
MagisterSieran@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Except the person OP is referring to has explicitly stated, in a comment on this very post, that it’s about AI for them.
KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Oh my bad, I didn’t know that was the actual reason
Most other thorn-users I’ve interacted with were doing it out of an attempt to reform English spelling so
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
Yep, it’s just one dude who’s very adamant about it argues all the time has endless amounts of misinformation about how AI works and is generally kind of an a******.
Frankly, if all it was was he was just using the Thorn. I don’t think anyone would care.