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Has anyone else noticed that autocorrect has almost become destructive? It routinely now pics words that almost seem to be intentionally incorrect. It's a far cry from what used to be a simple spell check system and it seems to be everywhere and hard to turn off.

submitted by Crackinjokes to technology 5 daysApr 24, 2025 06:43:15 ago (+16/-0)     (technology)

You'll be typing or doing some speech to text and you can see that you can go a whole sentence and then suddenly autocorrect will go back and change five words within the sentence. so it's obviously trying to determine the context it thinks you're trying to say and expressing that. The only problem is it gets it really wrong.

And if you just arbitrarily hit send you're going to be sending out a message you didn't intend to send and who has time to look over every damn thing they post? I sure don't. You got 10 seconds to maybe pop a message out and you really kind of assume that the machine is not going to rewrite your whole message and so you hit send.

I would really like to get back to the way that a machine would just let you send a mistype to word I would rather have a mistyped word go out than an actual word I didn't mean to say or even a whole phrase I didn't mean to say.

because like I said autocorrect now I've caught it several times going back over a sentence that I've just completed and it gets the whole sentence and it thinks you meant to say something else and it'll literally change four or five words in the whole sentence and you can watch it happen.

It really means that you should probably take the time to really oversee every damn message you right because it's like you've got a little demon in your computer that's f****** with every message you write and purposely trolling you and screwing around with what you're trying to say.

And I literally watched autocorrect do that with this message as I was typing it.


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[ - ] Anus_Expander 2 points 4 daysApr 25, 2025 06:38:35 ago (+2/-0)

I turned it off on the day I got the phone. How is that hard? And how hard is it to proofread something before sending? #niggerbrainproblems

[ - ] GodDoesNotExist 2 points 5 daysApr 24, 2025 20:10:58 ago (+2/-0)

just turn it off like I do mate

[ - ] BushChuck5002 -2 points 5 daysApr 24, 2025 15:46:20 ago (+0/-2)

Why do you use autocorrect.

[ - ] NaturalSelectionistWorker 1 point 5 daysApr 24, 2025 15:09:53 ago (+1/-0)

I tried to keep using phones with slide out keyboards for as long as possible so I wouldn't have to use autocorrect, but you niggers buying gay ass no keyboard phones ruined the market. Now look what's happened.

[ - ] PotatoWhisperer2 4 points 5 daysApr 24, 2025 12:48:58 ago (+4/-0)

I don't use autocorrect, and have issues with spellcheck. Most of the words I get wrong are one character off and it can't figure it out 90% of the time.

A large portion of words I have to add myself because the machine with an infinite amount of storage for simple text doesn't have commonly used words, let alone the more uncommon ones!

At least it still points out which words I have to manually correct. For now.

I'm convinced this is a back-door attempt to simplify the language we use, like in 1984.

[ - ] BitterVeteran 2 points 5 daysApr 24, 2025 11:22:27 ago (+2/-0)

(((autocorrect)))

[ - ] registered_bot 2 points 5 daysApr 24, 2025 11:10:23 ago (+2/-0)

I catch it changing in to I'm to make me look dumb or something. It does other little tricks like that with other words in the middle of a sentence, it has gone to shit.

[ - ] Sector2 1 point 5 daysApr 24, 2025 10:37:50 ago (+1/-0)

Autocorrect only underlines words it thinks I've spelled wrong.

[ - ] RollinDaGrassTyson 3 points 5 daysApr 24, 2025 10:37:17 ago (+3/-0)

Proprietary software is the digital equivalent of goyslop for the masses. Like your diet consisting 100% of taco bell.

Stop using garbage software and you'll also stop seeing software doing garbage things to you.

[ - ] Gowithit -1 points 5 daysApr 24, 2025 08:15:20 ago (+0/-1)

you are not alone.

[ - ] Anus_Expander 1 point 4 daysApr 25, 2025 06:40:47 ago (+1/-0)

we are born alone, and will die alone.

[ - ] oyveyo 10 points 5 daysApr 24, 2025 07:14:27 ago (+10/-0)

My new phone wouldn't let me type nigger so I holocausted autocorrect.

I would type nigger and when i looked it was something else and so i would change it BACK to nigger and autocorrect would not allow it and immediately changed it to something else.

nigger nigger nigger niggef

[ - ] jfroybees 8 points 5 daysApr 24, 2025 07:20:56 ago (+8/-0)

I holocausted my autocorrect because it kept capitalizing "j" every time I used that letter.

[ - ] PotatoWhisperer2 4 points 5 daysApr 24, 2025 12:44:14 ago (+4/-0)

A simple correction system has been subverted to push the jewish bullshit. Like everything else.

[ - ] FreeinTX 2 points 5 daysApr 24, 2025 07:04:53 ago (+2/-0)

Yes. Autocorrect fucks words up far more often than it gets right. And I scribble write on my phone. The shit it comes up with, sometimes, is simply fucking dumb.

[ - ] Crackinjokes [op] 2 points 5 daysApr 24, 2025 07:10:55 ago (+2/-0)

I swear it's like intentional sabotage now. I really want to get rid of it in fact I'm not even sure I want to have spell check anymore. I'll just send some s*** out that's not spelled correctly cuz I mistyped it and who cares?

[ - ] BitterVeteran 4 points 5 daysApr 24, 2025 11:23:26 ago (+4/-0)

Your (((autocorrect))) censored 'shit'.

Turn if off, faggot.

[ - ] Sector2 2 points 5 daysApr 24, 2025 14:38:08 ago (+2/-0)

How do you get it in the first place? "oqweitye" Mine underlines character strings like that with red dots, but only changes words when I authorize it.

Otherwise, I probably google word spellings and/or meanings around 20 to 30 times per day when I'm commenting.

[ - ] Ducktalesooo000ooo 3 points 5 daysApr 24, 2025 06:57:07 ago (+3/-0)

Haha yes