Autocorrect used to be so much better. Now it is incapable of leaving contractions alone, so people think I’m possessive of objects or humanizing them. You don’t accjdentally an “it’s.” Autocorrect is tarnishing my reputation with grammar nazis, and I’m afraid I’ll have to become a grammar communist, but red isn’t flattering for my complexion.
Autocorrect is tarnishing my reputation with grammar nazis
accjdentally
I’m sorry. ❤️
Why do you have to give apology to me? Now I must distribute among proletariat.
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.
Is it just me, or does autocorrect paper-over the fact that touch-screen keyboards are kind of garbage?
For me, turning off autocorrect reveals how hard it is to be both accurate and precise with key presses on these things.
Happens to me all the time. I also find even when I use proper grammar it will get messed up when I post. Because I read over it before I post and still isn’t right. Most times I say fuck it. I just hate using a tiny keyboard, but I am not sitting at a desk doing Lemmy all day.
In the last 5 years autocorrect appears to have got horrendous.
The amount of times it changes on to in or splits a word up in to totally different words 🤬
I don’t understand this. If I’m typing on a computer and I make a typo, I’ll fix it. Why not on my phone with autocorrect? Either have it on and fix the “errors” (more like false positives) it makes, or turn it off. 🤷♂️👍
Naw, trying to fix the corrected correction for autocorrect is so annoying. Agreed with the computer scenario but with phone…… maybe if it was a flip phone, you have more con control with that, not a “smart” phone.
I’m going to just take a guess: Most people who have a problem with autocorrect type each letter individually by pressing each letter?
I almost never have an issue with autocorrect because I type in either of two ways:
- Swipe typing, which is way faster than normal typing IMO. And on the occasion that there’s a collision with the swipe motion, all I have to do is press the incorrect word on the text, and select the correct one from a tiny list of three most common words with that similar motion. Never fails, very quick.
- Typing each letter individually, but here I just start typing the beginning of the word, then I pick the suggestion from the top of the keyboard to complete the word without having to type the whole thing out. Also way faster than normal typing. Often using this method, I don’t even have to start typing the word at all, or just a single letter, or a couple of letters is enough.
In both cases, correcting is very fast. Much faster than corrections using a real, physical keyboard, which you said you would do. So really, logically I have no reason to be annoyed with autocorrect — and I am also actually not annoyed with it. 👍
I hope this might help someone.
I’m going to just take a guess: Most people who have a problem with autocorrect type each letter individually by pressing each letter?
Possibly. I’m in that group, for what it’s worth.
- Was unaware that was even a thing. As a long-time touch-typist, doing this never even occurred to me. And I know how to use Palm Pilot Graffiti input, so I’m admittedly embarrassed here.
- My vocabulary is broader than the auto-complete’s dictionary/prediction, so what I want to say isn’t even a suggestion more than half of the time. I’ve struggled with this since iOS 3, and most recently on Android. It’s never been very useful for me.
Then there is/was this feature that resizes key hitboxes on the fly, based on prediction. I’m unaware if that’s still a thing, but at the time, it absolutely screwed with my thumb-typing muscle-memory in the worst way. Until I learned about this, I was convinced that I was just garbage at hitting the keys, then I started seeing it mis-register keypresses when I looked closely.
From all that I think I see the problem. These systems are compromises for a huge range of different users and communication styles. So it’s going to be pretty mid for a lot of folks until (people like me) move to the middle where the software wants people to be. Were it not for the sake of clear, personalized, and expressive communication, I’d be on board with that.
- Was unaware that was even a thing.
It’s been pretty great for single-thumb typing ever since it started being common, many years ago.
- My vocabulary is broader than the auto-complete’s dictionary/prediction, so what I want to say isn’t even a suggestion more than half of the time.
Could you give me an example of this? Also which keyboard do you use as input? iOS/Android?
I’m using whatever the stock keyboard is on Google Android. Since we’re on the topic, I’m open to suggestions. Especially if I’m going to re-train to swiping inputs.
It’s hard to pin down anything specific as an example. If I had to sum it up, its usually where I want to use a long word with a common root for others. There could be eight or so different ways to go for auto-completion, but my choice is seldom in the top three.
the stock keyboard is on Google Android. Since we’re on the topic, I’m open to suggestions.
Is the stock keyboard GBoard nowadays? That’s what I use. It has swipe typing built-in. But if you want more privacy, I’d try FUTO keyboard. It’s pretty darn solid IMO, especially for a FOSS and gratis keyboard.
I understand your position and for me I’m not sure if it’s my age or starting with flip phone I can type faster than smart phone with no error.
When technology evolved your examples came in order of 2 then 1. I did do option 2 but the phones kept getting “smarter”. At this point I just over it and these “smart” phones are doing too much. Which Im slowly reverting back to a flip phone. Well a smart flip phone if they’re still around, need some apps to live in this world.
I understand if age might be a limiting factor here. I’m nearing 40 myself. But I still think phones are getting smarter, rather than “‘smarter’”. Phones are incredibly capable these days. It’s the app makers who are making shit apps, more like. Designed to hog our attention and waste our time.
But the phones just run what they’re told to run, bless them. 🥰
My kids keep asking me if they can play games on my phone, which can definitely run games very well. I tell them I have no games on it (which is the truth), and they let me have my phone to myself. 😆 Also no TikTok or Snapchat and garbage like that. 👍 They will learn to be bored and find/make entertainment themselves, like I did damnit!
I’m the type to disable autocorrect everywhere, so if I fuck it up, I fuck it up. :)
I remember a time when autocorrect was terrible then it became good and then, terrible again. What happened?
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.
They switched to using gpt2 lol
I’m not fluent in neural network systems, but I thought it was NLP in the early 10s and not GPT.
Yea, then they switched.
When? I don’t see that any where.
I may be mixing up correction and prediction, although I think the two are related. https://jackcook.com/2023/09/08/predictive-text.html
That makes sense. I’m not sure how they are related, but it’s not my field. I wonder what prediction used before gpt.
I don’t ever remember it being good, and I predate cell phones.
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.
What I hate is my puritanical auto correct that tries to correct all my swear words and doesn’t recognize “harmful worda” like suicide. Who are you helping by auto correcting my swear words?
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… or maybe it’s just that you have very rarely intentionally used “duck”.
Remember that the majority of people just accept whatever is handed to them and won’t put forth any effort to circumvent any kind of adversity of even inconvenience. Other dipshits read a lot of Orwell and now they think they can shape thought by censoring or at least adding obstacles to the act of writing.
The annoying thing is, the latter are probably right.
The annoying thing is, the latter are probably right.
In a transient way, yes. But culture always circles around obstacles eventually.
I… don’t think we can be friends.
i disable autocorrect because i hate it when it guesses the wrong word much more than i dislike making a typo.
I hate that autocorrect defaults to such common words making it impossible to type anything without manually typing in “rare” shit. Or when spell checks just don’t know enough words. I shouldn’t have to add materiel to the dictionary in an age where modern browsers require 36 threads and 3gb to check my email.
My only gripe with Autocorrect is that it will sometimes take a perfectly cromulent word or sentence and change it to something that makes me sound like an imbecile.
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.
Man I went on a rabbit hole, but basically “Cromulent has crept so deep into the language that it has even shown up as a hypothetical example in a Supreme Court amicus brief.”
Link to that ruling.
I was wondering if anyone would catch that.
My gripe is that it doesn’t understand that non-white names are a thing.
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What I find shocking is how terrible swipe-texting has gotten. Back in the early days of Swype and SwiftKey it was fantastic. Now I’m lucky to string together a single sentence without it getting 4 words wrong.
When Microsoft bought Swiftkey it went downhill.
Actually, this was me yeah. I was typing on my new keyboard and it isn’t quite the same as my old one and it wrote own his wing, and i just thought com it, I’ll just leave whatever nonsense of comes out with. Who cars. Pele well be able to figure of what i was trying to day and it’ll be OK. Will, yesterday i have in and wooed it, but today you have emboldened me an I’ll just post abreast. Duck it. And thank you.
I still fight autocorrect because I don’t want it to ducking correct me when I type duck. I mean duck. DUCK DUCK
