Posted on 04/25/2022 6:02:22 PM PDT by blam
Google’s document editor will begin to correct the language of what people type to be more ‘inclusive’, according to a report in the Telegraph.
The article, headlined Big Brother (sorry, Big Person) is correcting you on Google, outlines how the company is to implement ‘inclusive warnings’ on Google Docs, suggesting that users refrain from using terms such as ‘policeman’ or ‘landlord’, because they are gendered.
The warnings will alert users that what they have typed “may not be inclusive to all readers,” while suggesting users should “Consider using different words,” offering woke corrections like ‘police officer’ or ‘property owner’.
The report notes, however, that even technical terms like ‘motherboard’ fall prey to Google’s woke correction.
When Googling John F. Kennedy’s inauguration speech, Google suggests that it should be corrected to ‘for all humankind’ instead of ‘for all mankind’.
Critics hit out at Google attempting to police and change language, with Silkie Carlo, the director of rights group Big Brother Watch, calling it “deeply intrusive.”
“With Google’s new assistive writing tool, the company is not only reading every word you type but telling you what to type,” she noted.
“This speech-policing is profoundly clumsy, creepy and wrong, often reinforcing bias. Invasive tech like this undermines privacy, freedom of expression and increasingly freedom of thought,” Carlo added.
Lazar Radic, a senior scholar in economic policy at the International Centre for Law and Economics, noted that “Not only is this incredibly conceited and patronising – it can also serve to stifle individuality, self-expression, experimentation, and – from a purely utilitarian perspective – progress.”
Radic explained, “What if ‘landlord’ is the better choice because it makes more sense, narratively, in a novel? What if ‘house owner’ sounds wooden and fails to invoke the same sense of poignancy? What if the defendant really was a ‘housewife’ – and refers to herself as such? Should all written pieces – including written forms of art, such as novels, lyrics, and poetry – follow the same, boring template?”
The feature on Google Docs, which could easily be shifted over to its search engine, is now on by default for what the company has termed ‘enterprise-level users’.
Google has stated that “Assisted writing uses language understanding models, which rely on millions of common phrases and sentences to automatically learn how people communicate. This also means they can reflect some human cognitive biases.”
So here we have Google literally taking on the role of the Ministry of Truth from Orwell’s 1984, policing language and making sure that its Newspeak is implemented whenever necessary.
That novel was a dystopian warning, not an instructional manual.
What do you use for maps? I want to avoid Google, but YouTube and Google Maps Street View are hard to replace. I have never gotten a Google account and I tell folks who send me Google Docs that I won’t use it, and need TXT or PDF etc.
So I can’t write faggot or retard anymore?
Imagine how often it will have to update in order to keep up with the wokeness.
“I have never knowingly used anything GOOGLE.”
In corporations, it’s almost impossible not to.
Bing maps are fine, though I’m sure they are every bit as woke. Rand McNally still around?
I put in “Firemen salaries” and here’s what came up:
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=firemen+salaries
It will not be that far down the road that a prog will “write” an email that a normal person will not even understand.
Even today the “thought” process of the prog are so different from normal people, their actions are barely understandable.
Their language will probably follow the same path.
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Afraid not.
Can’t rightfully address a homo, tranny, or hooker either.
Calling Elon ...
Well what do I do when someone is being retarded or acting like a faggot?...
“So I can’t write faggot or retard anymore?”
They will still use “gunman” no doubt.
Crimes by non whites: teens, youths, a man, a woman, person in grey sweatshirt, etc.
Crime by white man: Cisgender white devil, white supremacist, white nationalist, NRA member, Insurrectionist, descendant of slave owner, etc.
MS Word does this, too. It’s only a suggestion at this point. Easy to ignore.
Try ‘mail man’ just for giggles and spits.
Of course it will come out with something like ‘postal carrier’ but I would love to see it come out ‘person person’.
Good luck google,
trying to remain current
in a fluid of gender terms
will result
in an infinite logic loop
.
Another one of those “Fixed It 4 Ya!” Zapps for users who don’t require or desire any “fixings”.
Maybe its time for me to start seeing other Search Engines.
How bout Google go eat my man azz!
Poofter and commie?
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