If we have so much good AI tech why can't anyone make a spell check that I can't stump?
A few times a week I must go to the dictionary (like a cavewoman!) or search the web since I've mangled some word in such a way that there are no suggestions. It's just "wrong" what's wrong with it? Who knows!
Could it be a scientific name and just not in the dictionary? Maybe! Could it be an obscure word with a pretentious UK spelling? Probably! Could it be wrong? Also probably.
@futurebird As I see it, the competitive walls between these companies is an opportunity for ensuring my data doesn’t move between them. I am happy these apps don’t “work” across their boundaries, as I can use that Balkanization strategically.
Data brokerage has highly consolidated and shifted since it started in the early ‘teens—it’s just meta and Google now. The stuff at the seams, they know, but those biggest companies have a stranglehold on their own data.
@cyberlyra I thought about the data safety aspect— but in the end it’s not really a secure wall just an inconvenient one: Nothing is stopping some company from using the last book I listened to to serve me ads: so why can I get at least the same benefit from my own damn data ?
@futurebird@cyberlyra the less balkanized the data is, the easier it will be to get our hands on it for ourselves through law. And the easier it will be to poison it with incorrect information to screen ourselves.
@johnefrancis@futurebird@cyberlyra which is why I click on any golf related links I see. I spent 20 minutes randomly searching golf things in 2014 and I still see them pop up when I enable adds.
@stormcauldron@futurebird@cyberlyra I've been using AdNauseum for about a year. I don't see ads, but it's always there clicking them behind the scenes for me.
@johnefrancis@stormcauldron@futurebird Yep I know and love the people who built AdNauseum. I don’t use it or an ad blocker myself, because ads are my primary source of realtime feedback as to what various companies think they know about me. It’s then easy to guess how they think they know it, and to quickly identify and plug leaks.
FYI I block as much data as possible going 𝒐𝒖𝒕- just not ads coming 𝒊𝒏. I recognize this is anathema to a lot of people but it’s worked for me for over a decade.
Spellcheck, spam filtering, and search are all hit or miss and not getting any better. The biggest companies in history have worked on them for decades.
But sure, "AI" is going to work.
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