Around 2020, I think tools like Notion (notion.so) made it popular. Even the Huggingface itself is an emoji...
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replyI remember when someone registered (poopemoji).la
replyIt does show up as the poop emoji followed by .la in google search results, but not in a firefox address bar.
>but not in a firefox address bar.
replyThat 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.
Yes absolutely to avoid phishing sites with idn homograph, homoglyph attacks. Personally I'd like to see the punycode first then the emoji
replyLLM-driven writing's been a big part of this trend, unfortunately.
replyBut 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...
replyIt 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
replyI'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.)
replyChatGPT was the first place to really do it to this extent
replyLook inward at our infantile and excessively positive industry. We are just trying to have fun! Do you hate fun?
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