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   mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Apr-2023 00:31:22 JST mcc

   I just this second drew the line in my head from "Microsoft is one of the companies who is convinced ChatGPT is a good thing and is telling its shareholders it's going to try to shove this brand of 'AI' into everything it can" and "Microsoft owns my phone keyboard, since they bought SwiftKey" and, uh… shit, maybe I should audition AnySoftKeyboard sooner rather than later

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     Robert Thau (rst@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Apr-2023 00:31:22 JST Robert Thau

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     @mcc It might make sense to be a bit wary of Gboard (the Google keyboard for smartphones), for similar reasons.

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     SquidHominid (squid@glitch.lgbt)'s status on Monday, 17-Apr-2023 00:31:24 JST SquidHominid

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     @mcc SwiftKey has used an on-device neural network for autosuggestions since 2016 (2015 if you count the SwiftKey Neural alpha test), so...

     Yeah good thinking.

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Apr-2023 00:31:29 JST mcc

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     • SquidHominid

     @squid I don't necessarily oppose the use of neural networks, it's not like there's even that great a difference between neural networks and Markov techniques or word pairs or whatever they were using before, the problem is radical misapplications of neural networks. That and product tying, which I think we're gonna see a lot of from MS and Google soon

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     SquidHominid (squid@glitch.lgbt)'s status on Monday, 17-Apr-2023 00:31:31 JST SquidHominid

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     @mcc I don't generally oppose neural networks either, I'm just saying there's a precedent that makes me think they'd be eyeing SwiftKey hungrily since they've already cracked the seal on using AI in it years ago and just fired their entire AI ethics board.

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     TechpriestBaunach (techpriestbaunach@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Monday, 17-Apr-2023 00:31:35 JST TechpriestBaunach

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     @mcc i've been using FlorisBoard for a while, it's a decent foss alternative on Android.

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Apr-2023 00:31:36 JST mcc

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     • anyMouse

     @anymouse_404 actually the #1 feature I'm looking for in moving away from SwiftKey is the ability to turn swipe off, lol

     I'm confused by clipboard managers in an Android 13 world. 13 deletes your clipboard, right? How do they do that if you can just keep a backup in a clipboard manager?

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     anyMouse (anymouse_404@glitch.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Apr-2023 00:31:42 JST anyMouse

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     @mcc If you find a usable swiping keyboard with arrows, clipboard manager and not much AI bullshit, i'm all ears.