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.
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.
That’s you assuming they show you what YOU want and not what THEY want you to see.
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
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.
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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Something gets good, but the team needs to justify continued pay so they keep developing what doesn’t need development.
My controversial opinion is that cell phone layout designs (not tech) peaked around 2010 and were killed by the iPhone. Don’t @ me.
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.
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.)
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.
At least a couple years ago I’d say, and it affects voice to text recognition as well.
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
I texted to my husband " have a good day", and it corrected to " have a good avocado". Have a great avocado everyone!
Have an idea of what I have a great day and I will be able to see you soon answering the phone if you have to be a good time to call you can see the attached file is scanned image in PDF format the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the
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)_/¯
I can relate
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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…
The only way I could do that was if you wanted me too I could come and pick it out and then I can go pick up it from your place or you could just pick me out of there or you could pick me out and I could just go pick up my truck or you can just come pick me out or you could come pick it out or you could go to my place or you can come to the store or you could do that and then you could pick up whatever I was up and pick up the groceries.
This just made me think that if this word prediction is personalized (I think it is), and we had enough of these paragraphs from a person, we could probably learn some things about them.
It definitely is. I’ve had to do a lot of recent deliveries.
Although I think I have a lot of time to get the same thing as possible but I don’t know what to do with it but I think I have a lot of time to get it done before I get back to the office and I don’t know what time it is to go to the store and then I can get it from you and I will be there around the same time as I can get the same thing as I can do it for you to get it done before you get back to the store and then you can get the same time as you can get the same time as you can get the same time as you can get the same time as you can get the same time
I go shopping a lot I guess?
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.
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.
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.
Avocados are great!
I beg to differ.
That’s fair, more avocados for me.
That’s some great programming there.
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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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?
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.
Along with search and many other things. Probably most of theur devs are optimizing user distraction and ad click rate, instead of… basic functionality 😐
Definitely been noticing that. I thought it was only me…
For some reason, half the time I try to swipe “because” it comes out as “beefsteak”. No idea why and it’s really annoying but I can’t remove beefsteak from my swiftkey dictionary because I love tomatoes.
Glad it’s not just me thinking that.
Now that you mention it, yes. I used to be able to just swipe without any problems, but now I only type letter-by-letter when I’m texting someone from work.
Why, you may ask? My phone has this odd tendency to try and insult my boss/coworkers when I swipe text. I don’t insult people in other places, but my phone seems very eagar to literally call them things like “wimp”, “loser”, “hoe”, etc. I don’t want to get written up, so every letter is now typed individually. I’ve had way too many close calls lmao
Absolutely. In the past few years Gboard seems to prioritize more generic words rather than the ones I’m typing. Not sure why. I still miss the Swype keyboard.
It still works actually.
Not sure about that but in my native language the words for “if” and “poop” are spelled the same, so every time I type “ако” I get the 💩 as a suggestion.
It probably doesn’t contribute much to the discussion but I felt compelled to share.
Edit: also “правя” which translates as making/doing (i.e making dinner, doing everything possible" automatically suggests “sex” and “blowjobs” despite me never sexting…
Are they also pronounced the same‽
No, “if” is stressed on the last syllable while “💩” on the first.
On a similar note… I haven’t been able to find an open source keyboard for Android that has swiping. Anyone know of one maybe?
FlorisBoard has swipe support, but it’s still a new feature and doesn’t work all that well. It also doesn’t have the suggestion bar yet iirc.
It does feel pleasant and it gets words mostly right, but I can’t seem to get it to work in my local language…
Hoping they keep developing this one cause it feels smooth but it definitely needs more work
I use the fork of OpenBoard that has swiping which is pretty good. https://github.com/erkserkserks/openboard
This is great! By far the best for swipe type.
Works great, I think I’ll use this one then, thanks!
AnysoftKeyBoard also have it, but you need to activate it
Every damn time I type “for”, it auto corrects to “fir”. I’m about to blow a gasket.
I don’t know about you but I regulary text my friend to ask how their fur trees are doing.
YES. It’s so frustrating now. And Gboard suddenly keeps trying to turn every word I type that starts with a “p” into “poo apper”. Wtf.
I’ve been noticing it for years. Back when I first started using Swype and then Swiftkey you could vaguely swipe the word somewhere close on the keyboard and it would be correct, then I had to keep resetting the predictions every few months when they got bad. Eventually that stopped working and would make weird suggestions even when super careful. I switched to GBoard which was a bit better but the predictions seem to be getting worse there as well.
Yes 100% no matter the keyboard I use swype typing (and heck even regular typing) ha sntoigsbly gotten worse as the years/time goes by and I don’t get it. You’d think they’d get better.
This is on iOS and Android. (iOS swype by far is dog shit, the worst of the bunch)
