"hipsters", "Apple fanboys" and "normie" - I'm convinced this was trained on Red...

CSMastermind · on March 1, 2023

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.14165.pdf

WebText and WebText2 referenced in their papers are corpuses based on Reddit submissions which had a 22% weight in their training model.

https://openwebtext2.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

This is larger than Wikipedia (3% weight) or either of their two book corpuses (8% each).

The only other data included was a filtered set from Common Crawl (weighted 60%).

incahoots · on Feb 28, 2023

4chan stuck out to me, especially since they coined the term "normie"

jrumbut · on Feb 28, 2023

Normie is pretty old, the following article suggests the 1950s: https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/normie/

Slighted · on March 1, 2023

4channers use Normalfag. "Normie" is the sanitized version for Redditors and Youtubers that are too afraid to use the -fag suffix. Same with the "Glowie" meme.

SketchySeaBeast · on March 1, 2023

In that case, I think this conversation may be entirely wrong as "normie" is in no way a new term, and it's not fear keeping people from using the suffix/slur so I don't think people would go looking for a safe alternative.

hot_gril · on March 1, 2023

The only reason I don't think it's 4chan is it doesn't mention Gentoo.

jeron · on March 1, 2023

peak normie take