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by ckosidows 1209 days ago
"hipsters", "Apple fanboys" and "normie" - I'm convinced this was trained on Reddit posts from 2015
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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%).

4chan stuck out to me, especially since they coined the term "normie"
Normie is pretty old, the following article suggests the 1950s: https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/normie/
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.
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.
The only reason I don't think it's 4chan is it doesn't mention Gentoo.
peak normie take