applejacks comments on Has anyone else noticed that autocorrect/swipe has been getting worse lately?

[–] applejacks@lemmy.world 97 points 3 years ago (8 children)

Part of a strange, larger trend where things get worse as technology advances.

autocorrect, search engine results, google now -> assistant, voice recognition.

All of those seemed to be much better a few years back.

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[–] twistedtxb@lemmy.ca 42 points 3 years ago (5 children)

Swipe on my gboard has definitely gone worse lately. Same for my YT recommendations. I never ever watch shorts, and 90% of my recommendations are 13sec clips.

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[–] Zebov@lemmy.world 16 points 3 years ago

That's you assuming they show you what YOU want and not what THEY want you to see.

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[–] wizenheimer@lemmy.world [S] 12 points 3 years ago

My gboard has gotten way worse. I also have 2 languages turned on but I have multilingual suggestions turned off and it still tries to suggest words in the wrong language half the time

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[–] NewNewAccount@lemmy.world 6 points 3 years ago

You need to very consistently mark every short video as Not Interested and then avoid watching them like the plague. It worked for me but took about a week of doing it.

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[–] Hikiru@lemmy.world 4 points 3 years ago

What’s even more annoying is they’re capable of recommending interesting long videos, they purposefully recommend shorter videos on mobile (like less than a minute), on pc they recommend more long videos and the TV app seems to have the most long videos

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[+] CaptainAniki@lemmy.flight-crew.org 1 point 3 years ago

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[–] zipzoopaboop@lemmy.world 11 points 3 years ago

Something gets good, but the team needs to justify continued pay so they keep developing what doesn't need development.