RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist

#psa I'm systematically turning off autocorrect. As an #author, it's become increasingly evident that the word choices autocorrect makes to correct misspellings are dependent on a weakness of #AI. Whatever your feelings about the tool, without curation, machine learning uses frequency of occurrence to make choices once it matches patterns from your input. It picks trending words, not necessarily your words from your individual vocabulary. On the #Apple Platform with Apple Intelligence turned off, autocorrect does not learn from my word choices as an #sf and #fantasy writer; it inserts words from the Internet (my best guess) that most frequently correct the misspelling I've presented it.

This leads to frequently inserting a correctly spelled wrong word. I'm a touch typist; I don't look while writing. If I miss similar sounding words during revision, I can end up writing things unintended and, often enough, embarrassing.

This is why I am turning autocorrect off.

Fortunately, misspellings are still underlined in red.

#BoostingIsSharing and #AltText

#author #writingCommunity #writersOfMastodon #iOS #macOS #autoCorrect

Jun 6 at 6:11pmWeb
Show threadmasukomiJun 6
@sfwrtr I just use a 40yr old text editor with ancient spell checking tools. 😜
Show threadRS, Author, Novelist, ProsaistJun 6

@masukomi This is why I am not upgrading my Apple writing suite tools. #Apple has added #AI features and has rebranded them to make them subscription-based again (#enshittification dba monetization), Whilst I am using Scrivener for writing, I do use the other tools, like Numbers, infrequently and don't want to be surprised by a new service fee or strange AI behavior.

Sigh.

For now, autocorrect is dead to me. 😢