
Quinn Angstrom
There's a social media feature I've seen in two places now (Teams and Gmail) that I fucking loathe

Quinn Angstrom
where someone sends you an email or a message

Quinn Angstrom
and the app pops up some buttons with different prefab messages you can send back to him, based on what it thinks you might say

Quinn Angstrom
fuck you, software

Quinn Angstrom
don't presume to speak for me

Quinn Angstrom
know your place, furniture

✶ 天鈿女命
i make use of this feature to respond to my boss when he texts me as a quiet show of disdain for both parties involved (man and machine)

BattroidBattery
it's useful when you absolutely do not care about a conversation at all and want to keep saying 'okay' with one press

Quinn Angstrom
I understand what it's for but even if it guesses right i'll compose my own response just to spite it

RobotApocalypse
honestly yeah

RobotApocalypse
android's native text messaging app does it too and like. it's almost useful, but when you tap it, it just sends the prefab as its own complete message

RobotApocalypse
so you can't edit it first, which you can in gmail

RobotApocalypse
but the gmail one is way worse at predicting appropriate responses, too

Bloodededeborne
Yeah, those are annoying unless you're just firing off one word replies like "Okay"

Bloodededeborne
I've even seen them in dA, and they're fucking terrible as far as choices go

Quinn Angstrom
dA?

Bloodededeborne
deviantArt

Quinn Angstrom
ahh

Wild Child
a lot of the time i'll backspace and rewrite whatever it autofills

Quinn Angstrom
it just feels like an unnerving extension of social media trying to decide what your experience should be for you

Quinn Angstrom
twitter deciding which posts you will or won't like

Quinn Angstrom
now deciding what you'll say for you

Quinn Angstrom
until the user is unnecessary

DISCIPLINE 𓌏
Infinite Jest's negative portrayal of video chat where the two callers each wear fully covering masks feels downright optimistic at this point

dragon time
I'm thinking about that smbc comic where auto responses evolve in order to make whatever dumb shit you say seem intellectual until humans are vehicles for robots to have literary discourse at each other

big juicy
i remember seeing a post somebody made about how their dad made decisions by taking whatever dilemma or offer he was deliberating, sending it to himself in gmail, and then basing his choice on whatever the gmail prefab messages said

Quinn Angstrom
terrifying

big juicy
one of the engineers on that feature responded like "when we made this feature i did not think it would start defining people's life choices"