Over the last couple of weeks I have noticed that the spell check function on my browser (Chrome) for email and Texags and my inspection software has gotten incredibly bad. As in you mistype one letter and when you right click on the word it comes up with completely barely even close correction choices rather than the choice to just correct the typo.

As a medicore tpist and speelr. This is important to me.

Did I accidentally mess with a setting? Where would this setting even be? Something I simply take for granted, until it stops working and I realize I have no clue where to even look. Is it Chrome based, windows, something else?

Yeah man 100%

Was thinking about posting this same thing to see if it was just me.

Its degenerated over the past few months. Apple seems like its trying hard to intentionally **** up.

Maybe they got some new AI **** thats off the rails.

A real problem. Anyone else seeing this ****?

I noticed it one day and then it fixed itself. But for that one day I thought I was going insane because my phone was auto-correcting about every other word to random *****

Detects a a common misspelled word and the correct spelling ain't even in the list.

They all *****ed up on this.

It's been getting progressively worse.

I don't know what's going on with this. And I;m surprised nobody else is seeing this.

This could be some kind of unknown virus thats been undetected.

Stat Monitor Repairman said:

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This could be some kind of unknown virus thats been undetected.

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This spells dume!

My guess would be they are testing out AI engines to see how they perform at simple tasks, like spell checking and auto correct. They've probably got a few different models, and now they're experimenting with them with real world data.

If so, I am dramatically less worried about the robots taking over Tha world......

Anecdotally, my wife sent a text to another mom in the neighborhood this past weekend. Her first name is Brynn. I don't know if she voice texted or typed it, but before she realized it, she sent it out as something like:

"Hi Amy, this is Brother Man. I'm David's mom."

Thought it was quite humorous. She was able to send her actual first name before the other mom responded.

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Spellcheck suddenly got very bad because it's being used to train AI.

Instead of clicking the box with a traffic light humans are being used to confirm spelling and usage of slang and other vernacular in common speech.

Am still seeing this. Spell check continues to get worse over time. A drastic change over the past 6-months. We talking auto-correcting a very common word to something completely out of context. Very bizarre. They must be using spell check and autocorrect in the background to train AI.

Every time you have to go back and correct it, you are the one doing free work.

Mine is also capitalizing random words that in no way should be capitalized.

Autocorrect still correcting to nonsense.

Autocorrect in 2024 is auto-f-up.

Don't see how this isn't more of an issue and not more people complaining about this.

Corrects a typo'ed word to complete nonsense.

Mine has either gotten a little better or I have just gotten used to it.

What are y'all seeing be changed to nonsense?

I haven't really experienced this....

I have had a few occasions though where I've tried typing "St". For example St Lucia or St Anthony hotel. And my phone autocorrects st which is annoying.

Wild this is.

I'm tired of training AI for free.

That's what this is. They using people to train their AI on context and slang.

Autocorrect messing up words on purpose. There's no other explanation.

Spellcheck / autocorrect was better 20-years ago. How is that possible?

You seeing this ****?