I remember like seven years ago my android keyboard's autocorrect was completely fine? Not only would it seem to remember my common finger slip-induced typos and correct them on sight, but it could also autocorrect typos with numbers in them, ie recognizing "3" as a missed "e", etc

But nowadays my autocorrect fucking sucks rank ass? It's awful at guessing the correction for typos as it looks like (to me) it only uses the first letter as the basis for autocorrect, and if I mistyped the first letter then I'm shit out of luck for autocorrect picking up, like there's absolutely no way it could possibly guess what I mean when I say "I want vurgers for dinner"

But somehow it's gotten even WORSE than just bad at its job lately? I've had regular instances of the autocorrect changing a correctly spelled and grammatically correct word to something completely different. Just yesterday it autocorrected the word 'with' in the middle of a sentence to 'WI', as in the acronym for Wisconsin.

what is the point of making your basic functionality shittier? to sell premium keyboard apps? jesus christ

  • Foolio [any]
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    2 years ago

    Mine inserts random words when I type a period at the end of a sentence which is very annoying.

    • laziestflagellant [they/them]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      elite gigabrained techbros: yeah machine learning and deep ai webs are going to be the future of communication

      78 shitzillion dollar AI algorithm pumped full of illegally gathered data of 500 million people: when you said " . " you meant "butter", right?

    • laziestflagellant [they/them]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      Mine does the exact same thing for some ungodly reason. Punishing me for ellipsis crimes... :gamer-gulag: