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Every emoji in this post seems bigger than the last.

by parasti 1mo ago

silversmith 1mo ago
Where did that trend start? Who writes like that, with emoji bullet points? I'm seeing it around, but surely nobody looks at that and says "yeah that's good"?
- pvtmert 1mo ago
  Around 2020, I think tools like Notion (notion.so) made it popular. Even the Huggingface itself is an emoji...
  - deleted 1mo ago
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  - walrus01 1mo ago
    I remember when someone registered (poopemoji).la https://xn--ls8h.la/ https://xn--ls8h.la/ It does show up as the poop emoji followed by .la in google search results, but not in a firefox address bar.
    - koutakun 1mo ago
      >but not in a firefox address bar. That is by design (on Firefox's part) to avoid someone registering e.g. steаmpowered.com (notice а as U+0430 instead of a as U+61) and running a scam that looks valid on the address bar.
      - walrus01 1mo ago
        Yes absolutely to avoid phishing sites with idn homograph, homoglyph attacks. Personally I'd like to see the punycode first then the emoji
- mgfist 1mo ago
  ChatGPT was the first place to really do it to this extent
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 1mo ago
  Look inward at our infantile and excessively positive industry. We are just trying to have fun! Do you hate fun?
- _verandaguy 1mo ago
  LLM-driven writing's been a big part of this trend, unfortunately.
  - efskap 1mo ago
    But that means it had to be a trend already to be overrepresented in the training corpus, right? Or was it just something the RLHF evaluators got a kick out of...
    - dawnerd 1mo ago
      It was common before but the LLMs took it to the extreme. They seemed to have mostly fine tuned it though. Page copy definitely smells like ai
- markedathome 1mo ago
  I've really seen it a lot in Discord channels that have [emoji]channelname Occasionally in some channels lists may be bullets with emojis particularly the welcome/rules, usually to match reaction emojis, or to automate channel(s) selection (click on the youtube icon to get notified when a youtube vid is posted, etc.)
grenoire 1mo ago
Did an LLM draft this garbage copy?
- Narishma 1mo ago
  Yes.
sph 1mo ago
Likely em units and missing closing tags.

Every emoji in this post seems bigger than the last.

by parasti 1mo ago

Every emoji in this post seems bigger than the last.

Where did that trend start? Who writes like that, with emoji bullet points? I'm seeing it around, but surely nobody looks at that and says "yeah that's good"?

pvtmert 1mo ago
Around 2020, I think tools like Notion (notion.so) made it popular. Even the Huggingface itself is an emoji...
- deleted 1mo ago
  [deleted]
- walrus01 1mo ago
  I remember when someone registered (poopemoji).la https://xn--ls8h.la/ https://xn--ls8h.la/ It does show up as the poop emoji followed by .la in google search results, but not in a firefox address bar.
  - koutakun 1mo ago
    >but not in a firefox address bar. That is by design (on Firefox's part) to avoid someone registering e.g. steаmpowered.com (notice а as U+0430 instead of a as U+61) and running a scam that looks valid on the address bar.
    - walrus01 1mo ago
      Yes absolutely to avoid phishing sites with idn homograph, homoglyph attacks. Personally I'd like to see the punycode first then the emoji
mgfist 1mo ago
ChatGPT was the first place to really do it to this extent
2OEH8eoCRo0 1mo ago
Look inward at our infantile and excessively positive industry. We are just trying to have fun! Do you hate fun?
_verandaguy 1mo ago
LLM-driven writing's been a big part of this trend, unfortunately.
- efskap 1mo ago
  But that means it had to be a trend already to be overrepresented in the training corpus, right? Or was it just something the RLHF evaluators got a kick out of...
  - dawnerd 1mo ago
    It was common before but the LLMs took it to the extreme. They seemed to have mostly fine tuned it though. Page copy definitely smells like ai
markedathome 1mo ago
I've really seen it a lot in Discord channels that have [emoji]channelname Occasionally in some channels lists may be bullets with emojis particularly the welcome/rules, usually to match reaction emojis, or to automate channel(s) selection (click on the youtube icon to get notified when a youtube vid is posted, etc.)

grenoire 1mo ago

Did an LLM draft this garbage copy?

Narishma 1mo ago
Yes.

sph 1mo ago

Likely em units and missing closing tags.