A generation on autocorrect

[Vic Viper T301]

I was just writing something on my phone and seeing the autocorrecting coming up finishing my words or thoughts before I typed them and thought of a generation whose words are auto suggested for them before they finish writing them and think of some stupid tin foil hat 1984 shit.

 

[The Pink Panther]

Meh, it's just the future of grammar. Everything will soon be automated.

 

[UA 674]

I was just writing something on my phone and seeing the autocorrecting coming up finishing my words or thoughts before I typed them and thought of a generation whose words are auto suggested for them before they finish writing them and think of some stupid tin foil hat 1984 shit.

I see what you did there.

 

[Sprig of Parsley]

Autocorrect is a terrible idea. It doesn't even fix retarded shit like people saying "diamond dozen" instead of "dime a dozen" or similar malaprops. It just covers up a bit of bad diction.

EDIT: I love how spellcheck doesn't know "malaprop" is a word.

 

[Clop]

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

It scares me.
Not so much the auto-correct, but the predictive text.
It also scares me how little people seem to be bothered that some AI somewhere is looking at pretty much everything we're typing.

 

[REGENDarySumanai]

I disabled auto-correct on my phone. I don't know why people don't do this.

 

[neurotypical]

Most autocorrect/autocomplete is malware, and a major potential security and privacy exploit. Personally, I can't stand it when a proprietary program completes my sentences and my thoughts. All the messages you type are fed back to the program. Bots read that shit, and who knows who else reads your messages. I know I sound like a 911 theorist (gimme my tin foil hat back twat) but this is different. Time and time again, major and minor corporations are exposed, and it is well documented that your data are being mined.

Apart from all that shit, autocorrect/autocomplete creates a dependency. I can't even tell you how many times I've seen people completely fail while typing a simple sentence, only 'cause their phone didn't have autocomplete... You forget the English language.

 

[pentylspacer2600]

they could potentially make an indistinguishable virtual you. id personally think it was cool but only if i was the one who made it and only input data with the project in mind

 

[Exigent Circumcisions]

I always end up turning it off eventually because it doesn't have a large enough vocabulary to begin with (see @Sprig of Parsley's note that it doesn't know 'malaprop') and because I invariably use slang and make up conjunctions that get added into the list, which makes the predictive typing seem like a schizophrene trying to guess what I'm about to say.

All in all, garbage-tier, it can't help me spell onomatopoeia so fuck it, away it goes.

 

[ddlloo]

I was just writing something on my phone and seeing the autocorrecting coming up finishing my words or thoughts before I typed them and thought of a generation whose words are auto suggested for them before they finish writing them and think of some stupid tin foil hat 1984 shit.

No shit. Listen to some of the stuff Alex Jones says about the goals of the technocratic class sometime. It's all about narrowing and down and managing your lives. Not for YOUR benefit but for theirs.

 

[Vic Viper T301]

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BUSTAH WOLF

It scares me.
Not so much the auto-correct, but the predictive text.
It also scares me how little people seem to be bothered that some AI somewhere is looking at pretty much everything we're typing.

This is much like I was thinking when I wrote this.

Most autocorrect/autocomplete is malware, and a major potential security and privacy exploit. Personally, I can't stand it when a proprietary program completes my sentences and my thoughts. All the messages you type are fed back to the program. Bots read that shit, and who knows who else reads your messages. I know I sound like a 911 theorist (gimme my tin foil hat back twat) but this is different. Time and time again, major and minor corporations are exposed, and it is well documented that your data are being mined.

Apart from all that shit, autocorrect/autocomplete creates a dependency. I can't even tell you how many times I've seen people completely fail while typing a simple sentence, only 'cause their phone didn't have autocomplete... You forget the English language.

This too. I like to write without 'suggestions' and this global Clippy telling you to respect all genders or whatever is hopefully just going to create a backlash in the future. But are they that dumb? Will they be cowed?

 

[Coach Kreeton Of All That]

It scares me.
Not so much the auto-correct, but the predictive text.
It also scares me how little people seem to be bothered that some AI somewhere is looking at pretty much everything we're typing.

Auto-correct and auto-predict bring this song to mind. Quite eerie, so to say.

 

[Rei is shit]

I wonder if this shit is why we may be past the peak of typing skills being semi-common. Already younger kids can't type on a keyboard for fucking shit, and with shit like this and text to speech the next generation may not even have smartphone thumb typing skillz. Stenographers will probably be wiped out by text to speech transcription but I wonder if typist will somehow still live on as a career.

Also like parsley said, these dictionaries are too small. Anything that doesnt have sturm und drang in it is fucking trash, which means they are all fucking trash. Speaking of the futures vocabulary will probably be smaller, thanks to this shit, audio books instead of real books, and most online news sources just being poorly written shit that leans on buzzwords over anything of substance.

 

[Hail Nyarlathotep]

I just turn it off. It keeps changing the correct words, while leaving the misspelled ones as it is. It's just unnecessary garbage.

 

[Coach Kreeton Of All That]

I wonder if this shit is why we may be past the peak of typing skills being semi-common. Already younger kids can't type on a keyboard for fucking shit, and with shit like this and text to speech the next generation may not even have smartphone thumb typing skillz. Stenographers will probably be wiped out by text to speech transcription but I wonder if typist will somehow still live on as a career.

Also like parsley said, these dictionaries are too small. Anything that doesnt have sturm und drang in it is fucking trash, which means they are all fucking trash. Speaking of the futures vocabulary will probably be smaller, thanks to this shit, audio books instead of real books, and most online news sources just being poorly written shit that leans on buzzwords over anything of substance.

On the one hand, swipe somewhat eases things up for those with carpel tunnel and makes for faster communication.

On the other, it's also a good breeding ground and growth for decline and deterioration in making effort.

 

[Takodachi]

I don't find it useful when spellchecking in English.
In Spanish however, it's a god sent for tards like myself who could never learn accentuation. Moving back and forth between 2 different countries with completely different languages fucked with me in more than one aspect.

 

[Terminus Est]

I disable that shit. I can type and think for myself.

 

[Lemmingwise]

I know I sound like a 911 theorist (gimme my tin foil hat back twat) but this is different.

You sound like one, because it's not different.

Anyone reasonable that has spent more than an hours worth of attention at either will come to the conclusion that something fishy is going on in both instances.

It's just that the people that have spent that time have to pretend like it isn't obvious to not look odd between the people that have not spent that time.

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It's the same thing with smart tv's and inbuilt microphones. Putting two-way televisions in our homes without it being mandated by ingsoc.

 

[neurotypical]

Anyone reasonable that has spent more than an hours worth of attention at either will come to the conclusion that something fishy is going on in both instances.

I don't really think so. Proprietary autocorrect/autocomplete software is a privacy breach by definition. The way a proprietary autocorrect programs work is faulty. You constantly send data to a server, and various bots (how many? what do they do exactly?) read your data. The only non-intrusive autocorrect program one can have is a local, open-source program.

As for 911, there is no proof that the US government conspired against the American people. Maybe it did, maybe it didn't. I don't know. All I know is that there hasn't been evidence presented as far as I am concerned.
Therefore, 911 and proprietary malware are two separate issues. The former is a conspiracy theory, and the latter has been proven to be true.