Was working on a text and laboriously typed "Siouxsie and the Banshees" only to watch helplessly as autocorrect changed "Siouxsie" to "Susie" and all of a sudden I want to burn all of Silicon Valley to the ground. That's not an overreaction is it?
The autocorrect has gotten so stupid and dumb that I recently turned it off in Chrome. I do think it's gotten more aggressive lately. Also I'm more aggressive lately.
it's like a really stupid person grabbing the levers of your old-style typewriter as you work and actively interfering with what you're doing. I could scream sometimes.
I especially love when my iphone autocorrects a word to something I don’t want, I backspace and correct it, and it…autocorrects me again. I want to throw the phone thru a window when that happens.
We should have drowned autocorrect in a bathtub when it was only changing fucking to ducking. Now it’s grown too large and we may have to unleash Gojiro. Which autocorrect just tried to change to Gomez.
Sure puts their AI in perspective too... because I'm sure there are no references to Siouxsie on the web... Autocorrect was a a warning about these end times we failed to heed.
Turn off autocorrect and autosuggest and remove that source of angst from your life. As a bonus it doesn't take long to re-learn how to spell, and it's a trip down memory lane having to remember things like "i before e except after c but only on days ending in y".
The LLM powered Google keyboard autocorrect is so powerfully bad, it always tries to second guess me and makes me retype words I have typed out correctly as it will straight up change them after I've typed. I tried turning it off entirely and it made my typing a lot slower.
I feel like people don’t talk enough abt autocorrect impacting writing and language. I write regularly and I feel my grip on language loosening bc autocorrect seizes your sentences immediately.
I feel the same.
The 12-year-old making coding decisions on things like caps, abbreviations, spelling and other issues have no sense of context (or history or manners or many other things).
Oh, totally an overreaction! I definitely didn't have the same thought yesterday when I had to change "my" back to "MG" for the fifth time in a minute while making a medication list for a new doctor. Big help from the program that also thinks exceumbatte is a word in the English language.
Not at all. I too am feeling a similar rage build inside me just reading this. Destroying all of Silicon Valley in an inferno to make Dante jealous is the only acceptable response.
Because they presume to tell all Consumer America what to message about?
I think they only pre-load "techbro-approved" music/TV/film spellings, and they update autocorrect from their end with any major sci-fi release.
Not sure why they'd skip Siouxsie & genre, though—there must be fans in tech.
