96 points

Part of a strange, larger trend where things get worse as technology advances.

autocorrect, search engine results, google now -> assistant, voice recognition.

All of those seemed to be much better a few years back.

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42 points

Swipe on my gboard has definitely gone worse lately. Same for my YT recommendations. I never ever watch shorts, and 90% of my recommendations are 13sec clips.

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16 points

That’s you assuming they show you what YOU want and not what THEY want you to see.

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12 points

My gboard has gotten way worse. I also have 2 languages turned on but I have multilingual suggestions turned off and it still tries to suggest words in the wrong language half the time

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6 points

You need to very consistently mark every short video as Not Interested and then avoid watching them like the plague. It worked for me but took about a week of doing it.

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4 points

What’s even more annoying is they’re capable of recommending interesting long videos, they purposefully recommend shorter videos on mobile (like less than a minute), on pc they recommend more long videos and the TV app seems to have the most long videos

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12 points

Something gets good, but the team needs to justify continued pay so they keep developing what doesn’t need development.

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5 points

My controversial opinion is that cell phone layout designs (not tech) peaked around 2010 and were killed by the iPhone. Don’t @ me.

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51 points

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.

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18 points

I suspect this is what’s happening. They’ve gone from a prescriptive ‘pre-programmed’ autocorrect to a more AI based ‘machine learning’ one. Hopefully this means it’ll eventually improve, although I don’t know why it’s taking so long.

(I could be wrong about all of this, of course.)

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17 points

Yeah, this is precisely what I’ve been thinking.

I feel like they gathered data, studied it, and wrote a prescriptive autocorrect that IMO was perfectly fine and was still pretty good at catching words I was most likely to use.

Then, all of a sudden, it turned into fucking scrabble and I find myself going, “WTF are you thinking autocorrect?”

Not sure when the change started but it’s officially shitty now.

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4 points

At least a couple years ago I’d say, and it affects voice to text recognition as well.

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2 points

Barring code maintenance, they really had no reason to roll this out until it surpassed the old system. The AI could still train on data gathered while using the old system.

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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

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36 points

I texted to my husband " have a good day", and it corrected to " have a good avocado". Have a great avocado everyone!

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2 points

What do you think about this guy in a very long way and I don’t know if he’s a bad person but he doesn’t have a problem or a problem or a problem with him and he doesn’t want me back. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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1 point

I can relate

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1 point

The quick response to the office tomorrow morning I will be in the same thing happened to me and you are Rika though I don’t know what to do it at the beginning of the day I will be in the same thing happened to me and you are Rika though I don’t know what to do it at the beginning of the day I will be in the same thing happened to me and you are Rika though I don’t know what to do it at the beginning of the day I will be in the same thing happened to me and you are Rika though I don’t know what to do it at the beginning of the day I will be in the same thing happened to me and you are Rika…

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The consumers of Canada will have a chance to review their products too to ensure they have had a perfect time for their own life and to make sure they have had a perfect time for them deal to make people feel better than they would have knocked out of the posts and they have had a perfect time for a very long run into the mix and the like for the use it as a base-line and the like for the use it is for the use it is for the use it as a base-line of a finite and I hope u stay in the past was the same password on the phone at the same password on the phone at the moment and it says it has to pay for things like your speed bump in it but it could be partially due for the use it as a base-line of a finite or the other hand that is expected to be honest and to make sure more is not the first place I want more than I see a guard to be the way to fail to see an angry dating service even though the online by the people who have worked on their craft for their whole life and thousands of dollars to get a lot of people don’t struggle with basic troubleshooting and I miss the opportunity to learn about the lack of posts or effort to increase the community of people who might forget that they might still be around in the future.

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5 points

Honestly, I would appreciate the sentiment. Too often do I cut open the avocado and realize it’s not a good one, and it ruins my lunch.

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3 points

I’m in Germany and almost every avocado here is a bad avocado. Two things I really miss from California: avocados and dispensaries. Things I don’t miss: strip malls and cars for everything.

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2 points

I miss Burritos most from California. Texas thinks they have good Mexican food, but they apparently have no fucking clue what a burrito is. A burrito does require sauce being poured on top. You can wrap it in foil and hold it instead of needing a fork and knife.

Sorry, rant over.

I have never visited Germany, but I visited Tokyo last spring and loved the public transportation. I live in rural area, so cars are unfortunately my life.

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2 points

Avocados are great!

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3 points

I beg to differ.

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1 point

That’s fair, more avocados for me.

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2 points

I thought I was there only one spring spring showing sorting sowing great avocado blessings to everyone! (Swipe typos left in for Emojis emojis emojis emphasis)

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2 points

That’s some great programming there.

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29 points

Yes my Gboard swipe is definitely worse than before. It won’t remember custom words anymore, sometimes decides to not recognize my swipe and just adds the first letter, and gives wrong suggestions more and more, even when I know my swipe pattern is correct.

Swipe was by far the best. Why did they discontinue development? To much competition?

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4 points

Swipe was bought by Microsoft years ago, and who knows why they do what they do. The only update I’ve seen in recent memory for it was them adding Bing to the top row.

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25 points

Along with search and many other things. Probably most of theur devs are optimizing user distraction and ad click rate, instead of… basic functionality 😐

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