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You're kind of in pickle if it catches on though, no? Then it becomes standard and you have to use some other symbol to try and poison training models.
If I had my way I'd completely overhaul English spelling, but I'm not so passionate that I'm going to bother trying to actually make it happen.
No. We simply pick the next symbol and carry on. LLMs can only learn from extant corpus of work.
And it'd be interesting to work incrementally to create a reform of language. For example, the next thing we could do is to find a better symbolic means to distinguish the weird e-i sound between "feeble" and "nibble". Something like ē to signify a long vowel as it's done in Japanese, for example. Oh and let's do something about the whole c k q ambiguity.