When I swipe “don’t” in Gboard, at least 30% of the time it decides I mean “didn’t”. I just tested it, and the accuracy was shockingly bad. I’d understand if the strokes were very similar, but “didn’t” has a whole extra stroke in it compared to “don’t”. WTF, Google?

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    4 months ago

    Gboard used to be flawless for swipe typing, but in the last year or so I’ve noticed the autocorrect become far less reliable and actually prone to replacing the word I wanted with something else. They must have made some change within the last couple of years.

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      It’s so bad now, like I saw “what” a lot but it takes like 5 tries each time with words I never use

      Erst erst erst Edgar wyse scary what erst

      Ridiculous

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      I’ve noticed a similar decrease in quality. I have no evidence but I’m guessing they threw gen ai in gboard. Do yourself and the planet a favor, try using a non gen ai keyboard. I’m using futoboard and it’s pretty decent

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      I’ve experienced similar. I also feel like at the same time the voice to text accuracy has gone down as well.