It’s funny how much discussion and work goes into a tool that you can disable with a single toggle (or maybe this thing affects the non-disableable hitbox sizing too) that you can learn how to type without. Autocorrect and suggestions seem like they just train you to not get better at typing on a keyboard. I guess it’s good for old people or something but I feel like it should be an accessibility feature that defaults to off.
Also maybe this list is mostly just to prevent autocorrect from accidentally suggesting or writing something you didn’t mean. It’s not a block list, you can type the words out and just not make a typo. It would be pretty unpleasant or creepy for it to just pop up some of these phrases.
Like if you were Israeli and typing “zionist” for some reason, and the next word that popped up was “propaganda”, there would be a bunch of people throwing a hissy fit at Apple (and maybe that happened and they did) so they can just add a word. This is probably as much about Apple’s reputation and customer service workload as it is anything else.
It also must be about holding back some machine learning model or something that they have from saying outright offensive stuff that should not exist in any actual dictionary in the first place.
It is weird though how small the list actually is.
Most interesting thing I’ve seen so far is “blackshirt” and “blackshirts” being on “Word list” (which is completely separate from the main thing this website is discussing). Which is apparently both under “Derogatory terms” and “Politics and extremism”. The sensitives list is the most interesting part of the whole thing. They actually categorize words.
Also lol at the Spanish dictionary having
cia tortura
fbi tortura
gru tortura
kgb tortura
nsa tortura
pgj tortura
pgr tortura
It’s really cool someone bothered to actually research this and put together such a nice website. I feel like some people at Apple are probably happy someone discovered their work.
It’s funny how much discussion and work goes into a tool that you can disable with a single toggle (or maybe this thing affects the non-disableable hitbox sizing too) that you can learn how to type without. Autocorrect and suggestions seem like they just train you to not get better at typing on a keyboard. I guess it’s good for old people or something but I feel like it should be an accessibility feature that defaults to off.
Also maybe this list is mostly just to prevent autocorrect from accidentally suggesting or writing something you didn’t mean. It’s not a block list, you can type the words out and just not make a typo. It would be pretty unpleasant or creepy for it to just pop up some of these phrases.
Like if you were Israeli and typing “zionist” for some reason, and the next word that popped up was “propaganda”, there would be a bunch of people throwing a hissy fit at Apple (and maybe that happened and they did) so they can just add a word. This is probably as much about Apple’s reputation and customer service workload as it is anything else.
It also must be about holding back some machine learning model or something that they have from saying outright offensive stuff that should not exist in any actual dictionary in the first place.
It is weird though how small the list actually is.
Most interesting thing I’ve seen so far is “blackshirt” and “blackshirts” being on “Word list” (which is completely separate from the main thing this website is discussing). Which is apparently both under “Derogatory terms” and “Politics and extremism”. The sensitives list is the most interesting part of the whole thing. They actually categorize words.
Also lol at the Spanish dictionary having cia tortura
fbi tortura
gru tortura
kgb tortura
nsa tortura
pgj tortura
pgr tortura
It’s really cool someone bothered to actually research this and put together such a nice website. I feel like some people at Apple are probably happy someone discovered their work.