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   13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 17:50:14 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

   Today, an AI spellchecker tried to correct Game Boy to GameBoy.

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 17:52:35 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     This is the point where I once again reiterate that a strict, rules-based system such as prescriptive spelling correction is not a place where we should be aggregating the combined knowledge of everyone on the internet.

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     :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet: (darkestkale@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 18:22:54 JST :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet:

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     @HauntedOwlbear I've despised autocorrect for a long time and turned it off on any device I work on extensively.

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 18:22:54 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     • :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet:

     @DarkestKale I use it when proofing, but usually with my own heavily modified dictionaries.

     I mostly complain about this nonsense when I use Google Docs to submit copy to the many parts of the publishing industry that Google Workspace captured.

     The thing is, it's so obviously aggregating common use, but that's literally the opposite of what's required. I'm sure you could plot a fascinating graph about idiomatic and linguistic evolution out of this.

     But what's being innovated here is significantly less useful than any rules-based correction tool.

     (And yeah, I'm also team "machine learning is an amazingly fun creative toy, please take it away from the venture capitalists immediately".)

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     :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet: (darkestkale@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 18:22:55 JST :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet:

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     @HauntedOwlbear It's fantastic for pulling inspiration out of, but... garbage (other people's typos) in, garbage out

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Dec-2023 02:03:58 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     • Lunar 🛸 ♾

     @lunarloony it has no problems with Wi-Fii

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     Lunar 🛸 ♾ (lunarloony@dosgame.club)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Dec-2023 02:04:02 JST Lunar 🛸 ♾

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     @HauntedOwlbear I'm now curious what it'd think of 'Wi-Fi'