Why is predictive text so hard to disable? (beehaw.org)

submitted 6 months ago by friendly_ghost@beehaw.org to c/programming@beehaw.org

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Does anyone know, or can anyone guess, the business case for predictive text? On phone apps, it is often incredibly difficult to turn off. Why is that, do you think? (The examples I have recent experience with are Facebook and Outlook mobile apps.)

I would have thought that, for AI training purposes, they would want humans typing things and not just regurgitating canned responses. But apparently not?

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[-] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 6 months ago

On Android you can just install another keyboard if your current one doesn't have a setting for this.

If I had to guess a business case, I'd say that predictive text as a feature gives you a "legitimate reason" to send your typing data to Google or whoever to train the prediction engine, and they want that data.

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