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I switxh between three different la gauge. Ny Autocorrect is fu ked up

Autocorrect is tarnishing my reputation with grammar nazis

accjdentally

I'm sorry. ❤️

My problem is that sentences end up like the meme, where autocorrect does nothing to address the typo.

It loves leaving words like anf alone, even though it's not a word.

I've been using thumbkey for a while now. The first few days were torture but once you're used to it there's no going back.

kind of the opposite for me. i never use autocorrect, and when i type in a very long password, i am always surprised how often i get it first try

Because it genuinely used to make fewer mistakes just a few years ago, and has noticeably worsened

Yeah this isn't correcting auticorrect, it's disabling it.

Big if truce

I don't know how I feel about "cromulent" being in the dictionary now. Its sort of great that The Simpsons create this type of effect, but now it ruins the joke.

My gripe is that it doesn't understand that non-white names are a thing.

It will not let you use basic turns of phrase. Like "turn of phrase" will get autocorrected to something else. And then you have to go back and be like, no, let me type that again so you understand, phone. All the time

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They switched to using gpt2 lol

My cynical mind says they broke autocomplete to encourage voice to text which is a much more rich data mining avenue than text only. Think of what all information about yourself can be determined just from your voice, which passes through Google servers when you use their voice to text and they most definitely keep.

I don't ever remember it being good, and I predate cell phones.

I think what happened is:

-Initially it was terrible, but it was not imposed on you, so you just ignored it and kept typing as if it weren't even there, unless you legit could not figure out how to spell a word.

-Then it got better and gave decent suggestions occasionally, so people started integrating into their typing workflow as an assistant to quickly complete common words, or to figure out longer/more complex words.

-Somewhere along the way it began to impose itself on your typing to the point where it was expected that you would accept its suggestions the majority of the time. So even if it's right 98% of the time, having to manually fight with it every other sentence is a MAJOR hassle

As a simple illustration of the last point, I remember the default behavior was that if you started to backspace an autocorrected word, the system assumed it got it wrong and let you fix it. Now the default behavior is to ignore you and keep autocorrecting until you tap a special key to insist you know what you are doing (at least on my Samsung phone)

Just a shot in the dark here, but maybe they aren't accounting for code switching between different apps on your phone and that is skewing your prediction algorithm. You're phone is guess at what word you're typing based on everything you've ever typed and not just what you text in the messenger app.

the amount of effort it takes me to ignore a typo that I've noticed is far greater than what it takes to fix it

however, seeking typos in a long passage is admite story

I actually wanted to type duck the other day and it autocorrected to fuck…I was kind of proud. I’ve finally corrected it so many times it learned!

When Microsoft bought Swiftkey it went downhill.