Autocorrect

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.

Just tun it off then? Why is everyone struggeling with this so much?
- Because it genuinely used to make fewer mistakes just a few years ago, and has noticeably worsened
  
  It geniunely did

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.
- I've been using thumbkey for a while now. The first few days were torture but once you're used to it there's no going back.
  
  Flickboard over here, I don't necessarily type as fast as I did with qwerty, but my sentences don't get horribly garbled with the wrong letters all over the place
- 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.
- kind of the opposite for me. i never use autocorrect, and when i type in a very long password, i am always surprised how often i get it first try

Typos are usually easier to figure out than when people pick the wrong word in autocorrect.
- Yeah this isn't correcting auticorrect, it's disabling it.
  
  Full manual baybeeeeee
- Big if truce

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 have it recognize English and diagnostic, and it always changes the word "so" to "si". and so isn't even an option on the menu! ugh!!!
  leaving diagnostic as evidence of frustration. I meant Spanish. swipe texting is cool but sometimes frustrating

I'm the type to disable autocorrect everywhere, so if I fuck it up, I fuck it up. :)

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 keep turning it off, but it always finds its way back on somehow. It pisses me off.
  
  Which keyboard do you use, out of curiosity?
- the amount of effort it takes me to ignore a typo that I've noticed is far greater than what it takes to fix it
  however, seeking typos in a long passage is admite story
  
  I'm not going to edit that word, duck it
  
  The thing with swipe typing is that it is also touch typing, so you can tell immediately when you make a mistake, just like with a physical keyboard. So while typing this comment e.g., I only paused to look down to type "e.g." because it involved the periods. Otherwise everything was done looking at the text itself, allowing me to catch errors immediately. 👍 No need to search.

With swype, there's a whole new generation of typos - swypos.
Today I asked a coworker to check the robot. But the text said check the double. To attempt to decode a swypo you have to use a combination of guesswork and looking at the trace path for the suspect word to see if it might be close to your guess.
- Swypo, love it. Brand new word...
- Isn't swype dead? You can still use SwiftKey though.
  
  I'm not sure. I think swipe is the method of typing whereas swype is or was a brand.

i disable autocorrect because i hate it when it guesses the wrong word much more than i dislike making a typo.

I... don't think we can be friends.

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?
- I actually wanted to type duck the other day and it autocorrected to fuck…I was kind of proud. I’ve finally corrected it so many times it learned!
  
  ... 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.
  
  And when you tell people how dangerous it is you get told youre paranoid power tripping etc.
  
  The annoying thing is, the latter are probably right.
  In a transient way, yes. But culture always circles around obstacles eventually.

Let's meef for lunvh is actually the result when you switch autocorrect off
- I switxh between three different la gauge. Ny Autocorrect is fu ked up
- Whoch i do cause I don't want to give more data, and it kept being wrong. I'd rather have the occaisonal wrong ketter.

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 acres Sith thuis sentiment. Sometimes I forget tot chance my language, nut rally whoose fault is Thatcher? I dienst program thuis pils of shit, I can't taken responsibility tot wat te recipiënt makers of thuis. Who cafés. Hoi are a smart personen, you van figuren it out. Let nobody push you of thuis hill, stand proudly andere boldly they have ontving in you.

I remember a time when autocorrect was terrible then it became good and then, terrible again. What happened?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- I think what happened is:
  -Initially it was terrible, but it was not imposed on you, so you just ignored it and kept typing as if it weren't even there, unless you legit could not figure out how to spell a word.
  -Then it got better and gave decent suggestions occasionally, so people started integrating into their typing workflow as an assistant to quickly complete common words, or to figure out longer/more complex words.
  -Somewhere along the way it began to impose itself on your typing to the point where it was expected that you would accept its suggestions the majority of the time. So even if it's right 98% of the time, having to manually fight with it every other sentence is a MAJOR hassle
  As a simple illustration of the last point, I remember the default behavior was that if you started to backspace an autocorrected word, the system assumed it got it wrong and let you fix it. Now the default behavior is to ignore you and keep autocorrecting until you tap a special key to insist you know what you are doing (at least on my Samsung phone)

Beef for lunge?
- I need more than just beets. Thanks.
  
  So, bears and Battlestar Galactica too?

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.
- It will not let you use basic turns of phrase. Like "turn of phrase" will get autocorrected to something else. And then you have to go back and be like, no, let me type that again so you understand, phone. All the time

This 1000%
Also, if my voice to text program uses the wrong word. I'm probably not going to fix it. Obviously this has problems with homonyms, they're there and there for example. But also some great noisy environment issues
- your dictate app seems to struggle with punctuation. If you send people texts w/o explain that you use speech-to-text, they might think you are struggling with basic grammar. Just a heads up
  
  The people who get direct texts from me have much bigger concerns then my grammar.

my dude is powering up from that coffee

I still fight autocorrect because I don't want it to ducking correct me when I type duck. I mean duck. DUCK DUCK

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.

I‘m in this picture and i don‘t care anymore.

So i use the swipe to make words, but when i hand type out the word, i do not expect auto correct to assist me, and it won’t… until i move on to another word, then It sneakily changes it.

So... You do correct autocorrect (or don't enable it). It's not going to change what you text to non-words.
- This needed to be said. You are a hero among men

Autocorrect seems to have gotten worse? i remember it working better, but now I find it happily inserts incorrect words and leads to a false sense of security. I turned it off and just look for the red underlines to tell me I screwed up.

ome, you can disable autocorrect
two, you'll still have that vpeoblem if you disable it. but it's easier to figure out an odd letter than a totally wrong weird imho

This is ducking unhinged.

Autocorrect is the gamification of typing. That said, it's disabled on my devices.