Not sure about that but in my native language the words for “if” and “poop” are spelled the same, so every time I type “ако” I get the 💩 as a suggestion.
It probably doesn’t contribute much to the discussion but I felt compelled to share.
Edit: also “правя” which translates as making/doing (i.e making dinner, doing everything possible" automatically suggests “sex” and “blowjobs” despite me never sexting…
Are they also pronounced the same‽
No, “if” is stressed on the last syllable while “💩” on the first.
For some reason, half the time I try to swipe “because” it comes out as “beefsteak”. No idea why and it’s really annoying but I can’t remove beefsteak from my swiftkey dictionary because I love tomatoes.
I just want my phone to stop changing its to fucking it’s. Goddammit, stop fucking changing a valid word to something else.
Every damn time I type “for”, it auto corrects to “fir”. I’m about to blow a gasket.
I don’t know about you but I regulary text my friend to ask how their fur trees are doing.
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No change here, but I’m using an iPhone.
1000%.
I’ve noticed across platforms, posts, texts, etc.
My guess is that there’s been a slow infiltration of “AI powered” autocorrect across the industry.
Other than that, I don’t really have a good answer to the broad, sweeping degradation of autocorrect.
But you’re definitely not the only one.
It could even be that as more and more of our lives gets funneled into these machines we’re seeing less literacy and therefore more typos to make the algorithms second guess themselves. If 10 users for every 100 type fir instead of for and don’t correct it the algo starts to see that as possible correct
I suspect this is what’s happening. They’ve gone from a prescriptive ‘pre-programmed’ autocorrect to a more AI based ‘machine learning’ one. Hopefully this means it’ll eventually improve, although I don’t know why it’s taking so long.
(I could be wrong about all of this, of course.)
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Yeah, this is precisely what I’ve been thinking.
I feel like they gathered data, studied it, and wrote a prescriptive autocorrect that IMO was perfectly fine and was still pretty good at catching words I was most likely to use.
Then, all of a sudden, it turned into fucking scrabble and I find myself going, “WTF are you thinking autocorrect?”
Not sure when the change started but it’s officially shitty now.
At least a couple years ago I’d say, and it affects voice to text recognition as well.
Barring code maintenance, they really had no reason to roll this out until it surpassed the old system. The AI could still train on data gathered while using the old system.
For iPhone I always feel like autocorrect was better 5-10 years ago but maybe just a selective memory (the past is rosy). Seems like in my memory you could just type without looking at the keyboard and it would all be fine. Sometimes nowadays it tries ti correct based on context or grammar but sometimes it makes no sense and you have to force it to say what you mean. I clearly typed fucking, hitting the wayyy right side of the f away from the d as possible but how many times will apple correct to ducking…several. Several times.
Actually, yes. I uninstalled Gboard and went back to Samsung’s keyboard but it doesn’t help much
YES. It’s so frustrating now. And Gboard suddenly keeps trying to turn every word I type that starts with a “p” into “poo apper”. Wtf.
I just sent a friend this very question. Tusks for the good suggestions! Moved to Open board + swipe and it sends great.
Nah, I’m using AnySoftKeyboard and have had no problems.
However, it wouldn’t surprise me if other keyboards are implementing AI autocorrection… causing you guys issues.
I’m still using swype, so I haven’t seen a lot of it since I only use gboard when I have no other choice. But, yeah, they’re using humans to train their ai. By humans, I mean the people using the keyboard.
Yes, Swiftkey became total garbage so I went for something completely different with https://github.com/dessalines/thumb-key and like it so far. Takes some time getting used to but it’s a neat way for input.
Interesting… I just installed this, will update later. I just switched back to using qwerty on my phone so l coud type on other peoples phones but I definitely see the appeal of using this
I went for something even more completely different. I use pentikeyboard. It’s a chorded keyboard where you use all five fingers. Takes quite a while to get used to as well.
You can’t really use it one-handed, but for some reason it just feels so satisfying to use for me
Oh that looks delightfully eccentric, I’ll check it out for sure!
people will look at you as if you are a wizard doing a complicated spell haha
Huh, it’s the same author as lemmy.
Along with search and many other things. Probably most of theur devs are optimizing user distraction and ad click rate, instead of… basic functionality 😐
