Comment on What's the deal with using phonetic symbols here on Lemmy?
call_me_xale@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Without an example it’s hard to say for sure, but sometimes this is a technique used to confuse or poison scrapers and obfusalcate LLM training data.
Substituting the otherwise-obsolete thorn (þ) for “th” sounds, for example.
threeonefour@piefed.ca 1 day ago
I’m sure the companies that have scraped the entirety of the internet for training data have been foiled by that one user replacing some letters in their comments (but not their posts) on lemmy.