Recent global reactions show the world's diminishing respect for American leadership, particularly following Trump's 2024 election victory and subsequent actions in 2025.
International polling reveals a dramatic decline in America's global standing, with only 46% of people across 29 countries believing the US will have a positive influence on world affairs, down from 59% just months earlier[^10]. Even in Canada, traditionally a close ally, positive views of the US plummeted from 52% to just 19%[^10].
Trump's 58-minute UN speech in September 2025 drew stony faces from world leaders, a stark contrast to previous years when delegates would laugh at his claims[^3]. According to body language expert Peter Collett, "People are taking it much more seriously. Whereas formerly it was a source of amusement when he puffed himself up, now almost everything he has to say has to be taken seriously"[^3].
The administration's policies have further eroded America's standing. Massive tariffs imposed on nearly 70 countries have disrupted global trade[^18], while Trump's stance on immigration and inflammatory rhetoric about other nations has alienated allies. At the UN, Brazilian President Lula warned of "attacks on sovereignty, arbitrary sanctions and unilateral interventions" becoming the norm[^19].
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez emerged as a leading European voice opposing American policies, defending migration and open societies while warning about "the door to tyranny"[^19]. Meanwhile, Indonesian President Subianto received applause at the UN for declaring "No one country can bully the whole of the human family"[^19].
[^10]: Ipsos - America's reputation drops across the world
[^3]: DW - Trump's UN speech no laughing matter as body language shows
[^18]: Yahoo News - Trump Rants About Countries Laughing at America
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It would be fantastic if an LLM spat out thorns for some user.
Sure, but your idea here is fundamentally flawed. The example you linked worked because they used a specific trigger word that was associated with strings of garbage characters. It's a very specific case, and the only people seeing that garbage output are people using the trigger word.
You aren't associating thorn with a trigger, you're just using it 'correctly'. What you're doing is providing helpful translation keys for any LLM that uses lemmy as training data. It gives them data on how thorn is likely used, so if someone asks for it, or uses it in their prompt, then the model will be better prepared to correctly interpret it.
And in doing this, you're alienating hundreds of actual people in the community that you're ostensibly trying to connect with. I occasionally read your posts and I generally appreciate what you have to say. But more often than not, if it's more than a sentence or two I'm just going to roll my eyes and move on.
Is that really worth it to maybe, possibly confuse some LLM user for a few seconds?