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points by supriyo-biswas 12 hours ago | 0 comments

Any company that is concerned about their PR image has to do some filtering of this sort, otherwise they get hit pieces like [1][2] though in both cases, it was (aggregate) human behaviour that was beneath said issue.

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/google-autocomplete-vile-suggest...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(chatbot)

[–] noah_buddy 11 hours ago

The answer seems obvious to me: train a user’s predictive swipe engine on solely their own messages. It gives them an easy out on controversy while removing the need for a filter list.

[–] bigstrat2003 11 hours ago

They do not, in fact, have to. They choose to. Don't ever let parties off the hook for choosing to do something just because they claim to fear PR blips if they don't.

[–] allarm 11 hours ago

I just don't get this logic. It's a keyboard, after all. It's meant for typing. It's like if my camera refused to take a picture of my butt because it might offend someone.

[–] wat10000 5 hours ago

You can still type these phrases. It just won't help you. It's like if your camera had a feature to automatically take a picture when the scene looks good, and it was set to never take a picture when there's a naked butt visible. That would be a pretty sensible choice and it doesn't prevent you from taking all the butt pictures you want, you just have to do it manually.

[–] mschuster91 10 hours ago

> It's like if my camera refused to take a picture of my butt because it might offend someone.

Which the iPhone conveniently also does [1].

The problem is, media loves something to feed outrage, and Evangelical pressure groups love to raise a stink over bullshit any journalist with an ounce of self respect would discard.

[1] https://9to5mac.com/2025/07/02/facetime-in-ios-26-will-freez...

[–] ezfe 10 hours ago

That's not equivalent and you know it. This, to use your analogy, is like if your camera had an AI upscaler that inserted butts into the picture when they weren't there. Apple is blocking that and so it means you actually have to put the butts in the frame.

[–] allarm 9 hours ago

Don't speak for me, my friend; I used a direct analogy, and it's absolutely accurate. A keyboard is a keyboard, regardless of the input method. And as a side note - I find the local community's support for corporate censorship deeply repulsive.

[–] ezfe 5 hours ago

Autocomplete is the topic, not the keys on the keyboard