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Re:Apple Keyboard has a blacklist of phrases you can't swipe by xenator on Saturday November 07, 2026 @04:20PM (#50408169)
Autocomplete should be following the user's own behaviour. If a user thinks that "trans women are men", then it will be not a universal experience, it is just this separated user's own statistics.
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Re:Apple Keyboard has a blacklist of phrases you can't swipe by howunfortunate on Saturday November 07, 2026 @04:29PM (#50408239)
This is a good solution but you still have to deal with the cold start problem for the ML
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Re:Apple Keyboard has a blacklist of phrases you can't swipe by throooooo on Saturday November 07, 2026 @04:35PM (#50408277)
Then you just don't suggest anything if there isn't enough data yet. Regardless, auto-complete suggestions is different from what TFA is about.
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Re:Apple Keyboard has a blacklist of phrases you can't swipe by alfjal on Saturday November 07, 2026 @04:35PM (#50408274)
That's asking a lot given the current state of the iOS keyboard.
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Re:Apple Keyboard has a blacklist of phrases you can't swipe by nostrademons on Saturday November 07, 2026 @04:52PM (#50408375)
It already does this. I've found it'll suggest my kids' names frequently, after just 1-2 letters. It didn't do this before they were born. I assume it's training on my previous messages.
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Re:Apple Keyboard has a blacklist of phrases you can't swipe by stackghost on Saturday November 07, 2026 @05:29PM (#50408654)
I never understood the memes about autocorrect until I got an iPhone. The keyboard is so much worse than GBoard it’s incredible.
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Re:Apple Keyboard has a blacklist of phrases you can't swipe by hairofadog on Saturday November 07, 2026 @04:51PM (#50408370)
I can imagine that autocompleting following users' behavior could bite people who do a lot of sexting or could reveal other secrets, ex. `the door code is`
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Re:Apple Keyboard has a blacklist of phrases you can't swipe by conception on Saturday November 07, 2026 @05:17PM (#50408582)
Yes, please allow me to have corps not only know everything about me but have a hyper accurate way to know what I’m thinking as well.

Or we could just type the whole sentence we need.

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Re:Apple Keyboard has a blacklist of phrases you can't swipe by reorder9695 on Saturday November 07, 2026 @06:00PM (#50408859)
Futo keyboard on Android has a transformer LM option that uses local ML for text prediction, I've found it to work very well. As far as I'm aware it's completely on device.
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Re:Apple Keyboard has a blacklist of phrases you can't swipe by SV_BubbleTime on Saturday November 07, 2026 @08:34PM (#50409734)
“Generated entirely on device” seems like an omission that doesn’t cover diagnostic, telemetry, “product improvement” logs.
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Re:Apple Keyboard has a blacklist of phrases you can't swipe by stavros on Saturday November 07, 2026 @06:55PM (#50409187)
A friend made a keyboard for iOS because he didn't like any of the existing ones, and it doesn't send any data anywhere: https://typeneuma.com
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Re:Apple Keyboard has a blacklist of phrases you can't swipe by xenator on Sunday November 08, 2026 @03:58AM (#50411539)
It can be the same way as it works now, hash table with hits stats.
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