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EXCLUSIVE: The Code Behind Google’s Woke Autocorrect
Breitbart ^ | 06/16/2022 | ALLUM BOKHARI

Posted on 06/16/2022 1:12:02 PM PDT by DFG

Leaked material from Google provided exclusively to Breitbart News give a behind-the-scenes glimpse of a feature rolled out to business and enterprise users of Google Docs that suggests woke-approved replacements for words like “man,” “woman,” “white,” and “master” as users type.

In the examples below, Google’s curated list of non-woke words and their woke replacements can be seen, such as replacing “manhole” with “maintenance hole” and “whitepaper” with “report.”

In some cases, Google can be seen struggling to replace everyday words. “Motherhood,” for example, is replaced with the far less succinct “experience of being a parent or guardian.”

The feature is so clunky and riddled with errors, that Breitbart News’ source within Google, who wishes to remain anonymous, now says the company is going to roll it back.

“This was an amazingly ham-handed feature,” said the Google employee. “A crude (with at least one spelling mistake), manually curated but poorly vetted list of anything vaguely race or gender-related that led to an obviously bad user experience. It’s hard to believe it ever went through user research.”

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: autocorrect; google; googledocs; homofascism; inclusive
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1 posted on 06/16/2022 1:12:02 PM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG

What’s Google? Oh, yeah. I remember now.


2 posted on 06/16/2022 1:15:16 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Tell It Right
No worries. I'll autocorrect Google slimball *sshate silly company if it tries. See? Worked.
3 posted on 06/16/2022 1:17:16 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: DFG

Grammarly is starting to do the same thing ...


4 posted on 06/16/2022 1:22:13 PM PDT by Fish Speaker (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Oh, and, "Let's Go Brandon!")
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To: DFG

Microsoft has something similar.


5 posted on 06/16/2022 1:36:10 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: ealgeone

Winston Smith had something similar.


6 posted on 06/16/2022 1:44:05 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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To: DFG

“Trust bust evil Google” is autocorrected to “Google is a wonderful company”.

;-)


7 posted on 06/16/2022 1:50:06 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: DFG

A true motherlode of wokeness. What is their substitute for “motherlode”?


8 posted on 06/16/2022 1:55:41 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: DFG

That’s why I always use words like “massa”.


9 posted on 06/16/2022 2:06:31 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: DFG

Wake us up from this worsening nightmare of civil society being taken over by subhuman, lobotomized creatures on salary!


10 posted on 06/16/2022 2:08:16 PM PDT by Seeing More Clearly Now ( )
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To: Verginius Rufus

What is their substitute for “motherlode”?

Sheeet load?


11 posted on 06/16/2022 2:09:18 PM PDT by Seeing More Clearly Now ( )
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To: DFG

Google is not a search engine. It is a tool of the hate-America left, designed to promote leftist thoughts. The search engine part is to get you to use the site.


12 posted on 06/16/2022 2:11:10 PM PDT by I want the USA back (To get the USA back - we have to recover from the current wave of insanity.)
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To: DFG
"Who is a fag for $1000, Alex".


13 posted on 06/16/2022 2:15:27 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Fish Speaker

I don’t get the fast track over the cliff mentality. How can so many mentally warped/deranged individuals be in charge of so much? It’s like we’re all on the American Airlines flights about to slam into the Twin Towers.


14 posted on 06/16/2022 2:18:35 PM PDT by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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To: DFG

Have all search results for Dick Durban been suppressed yet?


15 posted on 06/16/2022 2:23:20 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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To: Verginius Rufus

Try “glory hole”.


16 posted on 06/16/2022 2:24:16 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: DFG

Funny, when I want to search for something on the internet my brain automatically deletes “goo gull” and substitutes “duckduckgo.”


17 posted on 06/16/2022 2:30:23 PM PDT by John Milner (Marching for Peace is like breathing for food.)
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To: Da Coyote

This is not autocorrect.


18 posted on 06/16/2022 2:49:52 PM PDT by TexasGator (UF)
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To: DFG

Where does Google do the replacing? It’s hard to believe they change the words of an author. Do they inform the reader of the changes? Or the author before posting his writing?


19 posted on 06/16/2022 3:05:48 PM PDT by cymbeline
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To: cymbeline

“Where does Google do the replacing?”

If it is turned on it places special underlining under certain words and phrases. It the writer clicks on the word he will see a pop-up for suggestions that he may choose from.


20 posted on 06/16/2022 3:26:45 PM PDT by TexasGator (UF)
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