• TootSweet@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The only potential problem with that is that humans may pick up on it too. It may spread just like new slangs do. By the time AIs start misspelling the words in question, humans will possibly have adopted the same (“mis”?)spelling as a correct spelling. It might progress from people using it to mess with AIs to people using it ironically to people using it not-ironically.

    Like, remember how “lol” turned into “lulz”? Or “own” turned into “pwn”?

    To make this really work without ensnaring people too, I think a fair amount of work would have to go into picking the particular misspelling.

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      1 year ago

      Half of English speakers are already screwing up their/there/they’re, don’t know “alot” is wrong if it’s not an allotment, are now saying “should of” because it sounds like “should’ve / should have” etc…

      AI models do not need any help from us.

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      Like, remember how “lol” turned into “lulz”? Or “own” turned into “pwn”?

      Much earlier: “OK” from the goofy misspelling “oll korrect”.