ladies and gentlemen, behold the new ai revolution!
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.
Now that you mention it, yes. I used to be able to just swipe without any problems, but now I only type letter-by-letter when I’m texting someone from work.
Why, you may ask? My phone has this odd tendency to try and insult my boss/coworkers when I swipe text. I don’t insult people in other places, but my phone seems very eagar to literally call them things like “wimp”, “loser”, “hoe”, etc. I don’t want to get written up, so every letter is now typed individually. I’ve had way too many close calls lmao
I’ve been noticing it for years. Back when I first started using Swype and then Swiftkey you could vaguely swipe the word somewhere close on the keyboard and it would be correct, then I had to keep resetting the predictions every few months when they got bad. Eventually that stopped working and would make weird suggestions even when super careful. I switched to GBoard which was a bit better but the predictions seem to be getting worse there as well.
Yes 100% no matter the keyboard I use swype typing (and heck even regular typing) ha sntoigsbly gotten worse as the years/time goes by and I don’t get it. You’d think they’d get better.
This is on iOS and Android. (iOS swype by far is dog shit, the worst of the bunch)
I wish there was a phone keyboard with the backspace key is higher up. Ive been using touchscreen keyboards for over 15 years and still cannot convince my thumbs thats theres no bezel at the bottom.
I wish i could customize a keyboard for how my thumbs want to type. Itd look weird, but qwerty is weird in todays age anyway.
Even if the numbers could be on the bottom row below the spacebar, that would be a game changer.
You on Android?
I am.
Interesting. Thank you.
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I had thought it was because I got a new phone or because I reset the dictionary… but not having an option to stop the damned thing from correcting NUMBER INPUTS is absolutely infuriating. When typing in various lengths of lumber needed, I do not need a 60 to suddenly become a 50 without me noticing.
Aside from that, sweaty leg typing has made an absolute mess of my dictionary and there’s no function to edit “added words”. So I’m not sure if the auto correct has gotten worse on its own, or if it’s just a symptom of user error on my part.
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.
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
On a similar note… I haven’t been able to find an open source keyboard for Android that has swiping. Anyone know of one maybe?
I use the fork of OpenBoard that has swiping which is pretty good. https://github.com/erkserkserks/openboard
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
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.
No change here, but I’m using an iPhone.
