Quinn Angstrom
There's a social media feature I've seen in two places now (Teams and Gmail) that I fucking loathe
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where someone sends you an email or a message
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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
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fuck you, software
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don't presume to speak for me
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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
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dA?
Bloodededeborne
deviantArt
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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
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twitter deciding which posts you will or won't like
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now deciding what you'll say for you
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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"