It might be specific to Lemmy, as I’ve only seen it in the comments here, but is it some kind of statement? It can’t possibly be easier than just writing “th”? And in many comments I see “th” and “þ” being used interchangeably.

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    16 hours ago

    It’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

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        11 hours 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

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          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.