spellcheck went from 'pretty good' to 'an AI gremlin that randomly substitutes whole ass other words in place of the one you typed' gj techbros, well played - ThreadSky

hayao.lol • 71 days ago

spellcheck went from 'pretty good' to 'an AI gremlin that randomly substitutes whole ass other words in place of the one you typed'

gj techbros, well played

Reposted from Emily J. Edwards

fucking autocorrect didn't even get better

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zombiscribe.bsky.social•71 days ago

My favorite is when it can't figure out words, so I go to google them (I am a bad speller, sue me) and after FINALLY getting through google's bullshit it turns out I am missing like one fucking letter

Seriously..............................

(also yes I just need to keep a dictionary site w/o open)

smallinsaneone.bsky.social•71 days ago

I also hate how it’ll be like “oh you wanted to add this word after this one, right?” but like not in the predicative bar, it’ll just do it automatically. Fuck out of here with that nonsense.

voxwoman.bsky.social•71 days ago

I’ve taught my phone to type autocarrot at least.

karen-newcombe.bsky.social•71 days ago

Routinely changes my daughter Allison’s name to “alligator”. 🤦🏻‍♀️

shoutingboy.bsky.social•71 days ago

I have learned tricks to keep the autocorrect from changing “well” to “we’ll” when I actually mean “well” and the AI is *juuust* clever enough to learn my tricks so I have to keep figuring out different tricks to keep it from changing “well” to “we’ll”

crushbort.bsky.social•71 days ago

i need autocorrect to do exactly two things: correct when i misspell “like” due to the unfortunate placement of the k key and not capitalize brands

magneticsara.bsky.social•71 days ago

As a person with a name that is spelled in a few ways I've stopped getting mad when my name is misspelled and started assuming it got "corrected."

chronicinbklyn.bsky.social•71 days ago

It’s constantly suggesting words that are misspelled, it’s absurd.

souptomatosoup.uk•71 days ago

I still use Grammarly, but since moving from "LOADS of programming effort" to "AI" its much worse...

kenlowery.bsky.social•71 days ago

my favorite* is when it changes tenses on a word, or makes a plural singular! really good stuff, not crazymaking at all

anabsentmind.bsky.social•66 days ago

Or just autocorrects to complete gibberish.

ksej.bsky.social•71 days ago

Me: innocently typing about shots on target
Autocorrect: hah! You forgot to capitalise Target! Aren't you glad I'm here to fix these things for you?

frenemymine.bsky.social•71 days ago

Mine is constantly changing "the" to "there", "he" to "here", and "we" to "were" or "we're"

hotoynoodle.bsky.social•71 days ago

everything becomes a possessive if it has an "s" at the end.
"were" is forever "we're."

mind-breaking.

THIS IS WHY EVEN CODERS NEED THE HUMANITIES, MY GOD

quindimarlena.bsky.social•71 days ago

A couple of times mine has changed 'the' to 'thee' which...I know is a word, but I don't think I have ever needed to type it

marawilson.bsky.social•71 days ago

God help you if you want to find an old email in Gmail

bullgooseparty.bsky.social•71 days ago

They made it impossible to use for work

kurin.bsky.social•71 days ago

My favorite maneuver is when it changes were, which is correct, to we're, which is not

nearbirdstudios.bsky.social•71 days ago

And its to it's, and the right there/their/they're to the wrong one 🙃

ksej.bsky.social•71 days ago

It thinks I want to write "fucking he'll" regularly. Let me have my profanity, goddammit!

erin-p.bsky.social•71 days ago

Autocorrect’s handling of words that are spelled the same as contractions always makes me I’ll.

sprelacart.bsky.social•71 days ago

It's that Xerox copy machine all over again

emilioundead.bsky.social•71 days ago

I’ve disabled both autocorrect and predictive text on my phone. They’re truly abysmal now

historysraven.bsky.social•71 days ago

I've been fortunate, so far, that autocorrect changes "duck" to "fuck" or changes English typos to German or Norwegian words. But even that is annoying as shit.

noahgrand.bsky.social•71 days ago

Disabled autocorrect and predictive text. But it’s rough because mistyping on my phone has soared since I got disabled.

hayao.lol•71 days ago

yeah it's wild how they've made it so bad that NOTHING is an improvement even for people who need it

mauigreg.bsky.social•71 days ago

And why, after a more than a decade, can't AI learn that I never mean to type "ducking, ducked, or duck... never once.
Does Jesus ducking Christ make sense to you, AI? Does it?

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