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MS: "We now concede that Clippy was the most annoying, patronizing and flawed UX feature ever created." Google: "Hold my beer..."

dhritzkiv 4y ago
Some of these words may not be inclusive to all readers. Try using: [carbonated malt beverage]
- thfuran 4y ago
  I'm allergic to malt.
  - londons_explore 4y ago
    I'm allergic to carbon.
    - dane-pgp 4y ago
      Well, the Earth's climate sort of is.
      - sva_ 4y ago
        To quote George Carlin: "The planet is fine, the people are fucked." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdSi9NW5u3E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdSi9NW5u3E
      - WaxedChewbacca 4y ago
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hcrisp 4y ago
This AI strikes me as being so dystopian. Time to break out and read Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four again. A true AI would respond to user behavior and back off or change accordingly. Reminds me of Google News which keeps inserting articles about Kardashians no matter how often I tell it to "include fewer of these stories". For all the hype of Google's advanced AI, instead we get faceless, imperious NannyTech.
- IshKebab 4y ago
  is it even AI? They claim it's a language model analysing human bias but it's blindingly obvious that it is just a human curated blacklist. Maybe they're using a language model for part of speech tagging or to suggest alternative words with similar meaning but there's no way an AI decided that "motherboard" is taboo.
  - jzackpete 4y ago
    Blacklist? I think you mean blocklist
  - zarzavat 4y ago
    Yes an AI in this case would be more intelligent than whichever human designed this feature. Google is actually a pioneer in the space of AI comment toxicity filters. Even a toy solution would be smarter, you could compare the TF-IDF of each word in different populations (woke, average, toxic) to identify non-woke language, if that was the intention - not saying it’s right. This is clearly just someone who ran a regex over a dictionary and didn’t check the output of their script for scunthorpes such as “motherboard”. It’s so low tech for Google, 1990s technology.
bitwize 4y ago
Isn't Microsoft rolling out a similar feature into Word 365, though?
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dhritzkiv 4y ago

Some of these words may not be inclusive to all readers. Try using: [carbonated malt beverage]

thfuran 4y ago
I'm allergic to malt.
- londons_explore 4y ago
  I'm allergic to carbon.
  - dane-pgp 4y ago
    Well, the Earth's climate sort of is.
    - sva_ 4y ago
      To quote George Carlin: "The planet is fine, the people are fucked." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdSi9NW5u3E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdSi9NW5u3E
    - WaxedChewbacca 4y ago
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hcrisp 4y ago

This AI strikes me as being so dystopian. Time to break out and read Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four again. A true AI would respond to user behavior and back off or change accordingly. Reminds me of Google News which keeps inserting articles about Kardashians no matter how often I tell it to "include fewer of these stories". For all the hype of Google's advanced AI, instead we get faceless, imperious NannyTech.

IshKebab 4y ago
is it even AI? They claim it's a language model analysing human bias but it's blindingly obvious that it is just a human curated blacklist. Maybe they're using a language model for part of speech tagging or to suggest alternative words with similar meaning but there's no way an AI decided that "motherboard" is taboo.
- jzackpete 4y ago
  Blacklist? I think you mean blocklist
- zarzavat 4y ago
  Yes an AI in this case would be more intelligent than whichever human designed this feature. Google is actually a pioneer in the space of AI comment toxicity filters. Even a toy solution would be smarter, you could compare the TF-IDF of each word in different populations (woke, average, toxic) to identify non-woke language, if that was the intention - not saying it’s right. This is clearly just someone who ran a regex over a dictionary and didn’t check the output of their script for scunthorpes such as “motherboard”. It’s so low tech for Google, 1990s technology.

bitwize 4y ago

Isn't Microsoft rolling out a similar feature into Word 365, though?

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