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Has anyone else noticed that autocorrect/swipe has been getting worse lately? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by wizenheimer@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] applejacks@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] TheColonel@reddthat.com 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.)

[–] TheColonel@reddthat.com 1 points 2 years ago

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.