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Right from the start, DeepL manages to drop information, making it seem as if it's describing a program that deters juvenile delinquency. DeepL is doing a bett
by naniwaduni 6y ago
Right from the start, DeepL manages to drop information, making it seem as if it's describing a program that deters juvenile delinquency.
DeepL is doing a better job of generating text that seems to make sense, but this just helps to more effectively communicate the wrong meaning, and in a manner less detectable to people who would use it. This is a much more insidious failure mode.
- thaumasiotes 6y ago> DeepL is doing a better job of generating text that seems to make sense, but this just helps to more effectively communicate the wrong meaning, and in a manner less detectable to people who would use it. This is a much more insidious failure mode. This is something I don't understand about the use of autocorrect. Autocorrect takes misspelled words, which are essentially always easy to understand, and replaces them with random other words. It's frequently impossible to guess what original word got mangled by autocorrect into appearing in a suddenly unintelligible sentence. This is a problem that misspellings just don't have. Autocorrect is actively making communication worse. What's it supposed to be doing? Why is it there at all?
- rocqua 6y agoFully automatic autocorrect is very different from optional (i.e. user prompted) autocorrect. The first has your stated effect. The second does not.
- CarVac 6y agoUser-prompted autocorrect isn't "auto" at all, it's spell-check.
- rocqua 6y agoAs I type on my phone it auto-guesses the word. I can choose to pick the guessed word, and almost always do so. I call that a lot more than spell-check and yet no words that I did not actively choose sneak in.
- thaumasiotes 6y agoYou aren't using autocorrect. You're using predictive input.