Limits like this should have opt-out. People deserve to call out those pigs freely and with proper spelling!
For Android, there’s the Heliboard keyboard which is open-source and really good, doesn’t compare with other FOSS keyboards I’ve used. My only gripe is that it doesn’t do multilingual suggestions, you have to keep switching the keyboard language to get the correct suggestions.
Heliboard does now support multi-language suggestions, I should know, I use Heliboard myself. Maybe it is a new update, dunno?
Under “Languages & Layouts” and your preferred layout tap left and then you should see “Multilingual typing”, where you can select your other languages. :)
I could kiss you right now, thanks!
Yeah that’s pretty fucking bad. Fucking hate how the corpos have been censoring via autocorrect. And in particular how mundane of shit gets censored. Talking about questioning your sexuality‽ Talking about harmless drugs‽ Insulting Australia‽ We shouldn’t be “protected” from “accidentally” saying such things.
pigs out here catching strays
Motorola is releasing a film with graphene OS… That’s all I’m saying.
Please let Fairphone and Graphene have a kid.
That would be so amazing
It’s also like $2000
But how do you spell “removed”? ( 😆 )
The full list: https://swipeblocked.com/list
Created by the one who discovered the list, Derik Kauffman
Of all the most offensive words and slurs, Apple made sure to also block the phrase “iMessage isn’t working”
Corps aren’t your friend. Apple is just as shitty as everyone else, they’re just better at hiding it.
Yes. Offensive words like corn hole, cop shooting, and accept gays.
Corn hole is offensive to those of us who finally escaped the midwest
I don’t understand how “accept gays” even got on that list.
The king they bowed to has a problem with it
what the fuck
I know I’m naive about some things, but this is just… the fuck. changing the word before the most recently swiped word, because together it forms a blocked phrase? that’s just fucked up.
I’m ashamed to say that I truly never thought about the keyboard no longer being safe from interference.
like okay I get that it won’t suggest harmful phrases, sure, maybe I can accept that. but to retroactively edit your inputs… that’s just fucked up.
It’s consistently done that using names with unusual spellings since nearly day 1 - I fought tooth and nail with autocorrect on my iPhone 3GS and finally turned the damned thing off.
NGL, it slowed me down a whole bunch, but also forced me to take my word game up, which I kinda like, actually.
I’ve not used auto-correct for years, I feel it’s the way to go if one wants to avoid this whole word edit fiasco.
I do feel like autocorrect has been getting consistently worse over the last 2 years.
Longer than that. I’ve had it shut off for the last 4 years because it actively made things worse and has been ineffective at best. Now it doesn’t underline spelling mistakes probably 70% of the time. Highlighting misspelled words hoping for a quick suggestion help is a gamble if it recognizes the misspelled word at all.
I remember it working fairly decently a decade ago, but it’s been a downhill slide for a long time now.
+1 to this. Tried a bunch of FOSS keyboards and switched to HeliBoard because of it! Wouldn’t you know, autocorrect experience improved 😮💨
Microsoft used to have a word flow keyboard I absolutely adored and they killed it. I miss it terribly.
SwiftKey! I loved that keyboard and you’re right, they killed it.
No the curved thing. The corner was the space bar, the keyboard bend around that corner. You could one hand it better than you can two-hand a modern one on big phones. I LOVED it. I am still violently angry it’s gone.
Just talking about it…wait a second. I need to wipe out a family.
Sounds like BS. 100,000 words and phrases? Looks like more commonly written phrases always win over similar, less common ones. You can probably find millions of such less common phrases. It doesn’t mean they are actually listed somewhere in the system.
Did you read the article? It says he found the list
The source article from routers covers this better:
His curiosity piqued, Kauffman said he used a combination of OpenAI’s Codex and Anthropic’s Claude Code to hunt for a reason why, eventually stumbling on a compendium stored “deep in the bowels” of Apple’s operating system. He said there were different ways to count the number of gray-listed words and phrases and their various permutations, but a conservative estimate would put them at about 100,000
So he’s talking about phrases and permutations in multiple languages. I guess 100k can make sense in that context. They also link to this. It explains how some words are tagged as “sensitive”. It just sounds like they want to make sure the keyboard doesn’t autocorrect to something offensive. I think there are about 100k bigger issues than that.
Disgusting. I always turn it off when I can find the setting, it should not be the default.
I wish all phone keyboards had a easy toggle to turn off all “smart autocorrect” features so it types exactly what you entered with no changes when you want to
That’s already how it normally works if you just press buttons. This is for swipe-typing, which has to be “smart” because you swipe across many buttons and it has to figure out what you meant.
Even when you type one character at a time most keyboards including apples try to autocorrect what you type, especially if you use more than one language or use uncommon slang
I fucking hate the policing of words by admin dickheads and corporate censorship algorithms online. Policing other people’s language flies in the face of every freedom and right people have fought and died for. Also the internet is the easiest place to ignore people, give people who care the tools to filter their feeds and comments instead of blanket banning everyone, cause it might upset some vocal minority
Who the fuck do these people think they are, deciding what we can and cannot say, what we can and cannot express?
I never really understood the whole “No really, we HAVE to guillotine them all” attitude of the 18th century French until I met tech bros.
Yeah I’m not sure what ever gave you the idea that free speech was a thing on big tech platforms.
Stuff like this simply isn’t new, they just developed the technology while pretending to care about concepts like being against homophobia, racism, bigotry, etc.
Just wait until you read about The Terror! You’ll discover the vast majority of victims were just regular people. The odds are much better that you will be guillotined than an Apple tech bro. That neighbor that you pissed off 8 years ago will see to it.
Funny how bootlickers always talk about the 40,000 of The Terror, conflate it with the Revolution entirely, and never ask themselves how many the aristocracy killed.
I think you’re being a little reactionary, it’s more about offending someone by suggesting these things when they WEREN’T what they were actually trying to say. Autocorrecting to insults or swears could get someone in potentially serious trouble. It’s easy to imagine the viral facebook post “My iPhone got my fired!” Or even “iPhone is teaching my kids bad words!”
My mothers iPhone autocorrected an inserted an N-bomb while she was texting a black friend of hers so it’s not like this is surprising to any of us.
Doesn’t the autocorrect learn from the user? Your probably mom uses the N-word a lot
You should be blaming the parents if you see posts like that. Literally no excuse for not watching your own child and making sure they know which words are okay and not okay, in your own house
You cant have control of your own device, it could be a slight PR inconvenience for the company!
On 4th of June, 1989, in Tiananmen square, Beijing, nothing particularly interesting happened.
What most people call “algorithms” are not algorithms, artificial intelligences have replaced math formulas to back the recommendations your phone makes to you. Welcome to techno-feudalism!
that’s literally algorithms lol.
Algorithms are discrete operations done in a sequence, they are typically blind to ideas or personal opinions and are used for data processing, filtering, or calculations. Facial recognition algorithms are typically what you would call a complex algorithm as it uses conditions based on what the camera captures to make decisions as to where the face of said person is, if it is a person, are they smiling? What are their physical traits? Do they have white, brown, or dark skin, to adjust the contrast level for a good photo.
Artificial intelligence models are not math driven. They are language models, trained through machine learning and operating on a transformer architecture. Not only do they not replicate the reasoning a human (they predict the probability of action based on statistics of choices of others) and are most definitely going to be used to influence choices and opinions, not in an educational manner but in coercive and controlling manner. And it will become very hard to understand what AI produced propaganda will become. Even scarier though to me, is that it will be even harder to understand the effects of AI use, since all political actions have a direct effects which are often easy to predict, but they also cause these “ripple effects” which are the more dangerous side of politics and these ripple effects caused by AI use in politics will be impossible to predict for me, you and the AIs due to their early stage.
Algorithms are based on logic whereas LLMs are based on learning. LLMs have a layer of semantic understanding, which makes them more powerful.
laughs in sw engineer.
Meanwhile I, systems engineer wonders why the IT dude called himself an “engineer”
it dude? lol. i make robotics. including computer vision and ml. worry not. i’ll think of you every time an algorithm gets too many layers and starts to smell like an ai.
Computer vision and machine learning has little to do with robotics, but alright since you seem to work with know something about thermodynamics and are not a sys_admin like all the desk jockeys, i ll be nice and call you the E word.
But robotics itself is such a small niche that random people invoke because they see it in movies that I am skeptical to believe it as a systems and automation engineer, that s basically as close as 95% of engineer will ever get to robotics unless you re in China (mechatronics is not robotics btw) or work for Kuka/ABB…
lol. say that to my 6 axis machine that picks and pours and places.
bad bot. try again.
Artificial intelligence itself is a series of math formulas on very big vectors though.
I know it is but I do not want to call it an algorithm? I’m asking as someone who doesn t work in it but pretty close. As I see it, AI is a set of functions turned into tensor operations in a dimensional space (basically my university matrices class) and the parameters weights are adjusted based on collected data (human data as i understand in this case it could be reddit comment libraries or books or Meta data ).
That last bit is why I don’t confuse it with an algorithm since then it would be a heuristic. Algos are predictible, like running a graphic simulation that uses a physical and logic model, yeah id agree that s all a system of algorithms. Heuristic in terms of structure and method may look like algorithms but they are “rule of thumb” approximations for specific problems where we cannot build a math system (like an algo). At this point it is the human element and adaptation of the AI to you that would make it a heuristic.
Makes sense?
Shh!
