Google Docs will “warn you away from inappropriate words”

Re:Google Docs will “warn you away from inappropriate words” by Beltalowda on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @02:11AM (#31093433)

I had a very similar feeling when I had to start using Google Docs for my job a few months ago; it would "autocomplete" my sentences. On the face of it this is a useful and helpful feature, and many of the suggestions were not bad at all. But many were also not what I would have written, exactly. Neither is necessarily better or worse: just different.

A lot of people write in their own way, often with little things, but these kind of "hey, here's a sentence for you" kind of takes away your own personal "voice".

I turned this feature off.

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Re:Google Docs will “warn you away from inappropriate words” by throwaway2037 on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @03:05AM (#31093698)

This is absolutely the future of Internet content farms. Someone using a tool that can help them to type 10,000 words per day that sound "pretty good". Shudder.

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Re:Google Docs will “warn you away from inappropriate words” by cammrobb on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @03:30AM (#31093844)

On that note, I saw an advert for this on Facebook this morning: https://www.jasper.ai/

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Re:Google Docs will “warn you away from inappropriate words” by hef19898 on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @04:48AM (#31094298)

All so I can run a blog to create traffic in order to serve ads...

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Re:Google Docs will “warn you away from inappropriate words” by biztos on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @08:38AM (#31095964)

Recent advances in generative “AI” content give me hope that human-curated indexes might once again rule the Webosphere.

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Re:Google Docs will “warn you away from inappropriate words” by bencollier49 on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @02:59AM (#31093658)

Unfortunately, this will be very popular with schoolchildren on their homework, so it'll become normalised in culture.

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Re:Google Docs will “warn you away from inappropriate words” by hef19898 on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @03:13AM (#31093739)

Idiocracy was, it seems, a prediction. They just got the time scale wrong, we won't need 500 years. Software means we don't need to wait for social-economic factors and genetics to run their course.

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Re:Google Docs will “warn you away from inappropriate words” by gota on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @11:23AM (#31098261)

Yet again I have to comment that formal education levels of the parents do not affect the genetic predisposition of prole to be intelligent

And that Idiocracy got the "hereditary" aspect completely and utterly wrong

It was also completely unnecessary - a better and more accurate idiocracy would have people becoming progressively more stupid juste because they can, not because their parents being poor/uneducated made their brains limited

Sorry if this is a rant or too out of topic. I'm just kind of amazed by how Idiocracy progressively becomes this representative piece for a completely bogus argument

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Re:Google Docs will “warn you away from inappropriate words” by madaxe_again on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @03:22AM (#31093786)

Or we’ll go full circle and get them using pen and paper again. Even in the 90’s, the use of computers for schoolwork was banned due to fears over cheating. Why people think it’s less of a problem now I don’t know.

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Re:Google Docs will “warn you away from inappropriate words” by teekert on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @03:44AM (#31093921)

Because normal work behind a computer is essentially 90% of what was called cheating in schools back in the day?

Is something cheating when the resource you use to cheat will essentially always be 1 device away? Just call your device your cerebral prosthesis, it will always be there anyway. It’s how humanity grows and people become more effective.

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Re:Google Docs will “warn you away from inappropriate words” by madaxe_again on Thursday April 21, 2022 @01:02PM (#31112071)

In my view, yes, as it means you’re having to laboriously fetch all your data from the cloud rather than having it in L2 cache. Knowing stuff and being able to compute within the confines of your skull is useful.

If we’re to offload all of it, are we even human any more, or just shrews with calculators?

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Re:Google Docs will “warn you away from inappropriate words” by rmbyrro on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @04:54AM (#31094319)

Unless you have a Neuralink implant, that's a recipe for extremely low productivity. It will hurt these kids' future.

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Re:Google Docs will “warn you away from inappropriate words” by Foobar8568 on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @03:42AM (#31093904)

Because it allows to create an even wider gap between the elite and/or rich and the poor/middle class.

Guess who will have access to books, literature, proper writing skills and intelligible when speaking?

It just ensures social reproduction.

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