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> People want censorship, because they want their computers to be decent. The iPhone refusing to type “fuck” was such an annoyance for customers that Apple fix
by SequoiaHope 1y ago
> People want censorship, because they want their computers to be decent.
The iPhone refusing to type “fuck” was such an annoyance for customers that Apple fixed the feature and announced it in one of their presentations two years ago.
https://www.npr.org/2023/06/07/1180791069/apple-autocorrect-ducking https://www.npr.org/2023/06/07/1180791069/apple-autocorrect-...
- techjamie 1y ago> Apple's upcoming iOS 17 iPhone software will stop autocorrecting swear words, thanks to new machine learning technology, the company announced at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday. > ... This AI model more accurately predicts which words and phrases you might type next, TechCrunch explains. That allows it to learn a person's most-used phrases, habits and preferences over time, affecting which words it corrects and which it leaves alone. This is probably one of the weirdest brags I've seen happen around adding AI to something. Almost like there was no possible way to avoid autocorrecting the word otherwise.