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posts from @sperra tagged #google docs

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I've noticed docs getting especially, ah, creative, with its suggestions recently, and it's not just me. my friends in a writing discord group posted these especially choice images, and say anecdotally that many of their pals are experiencing it too.

what's going on here? is garbage from LLM training seeping into the spellcheck dictionaries somehow? is it something else?

a quick google search (which does not seem to be a reliable way of getting answers to this query, for multiple reasons) gives some sense that people have been noticing a significant dropoff in quality for about a year now, but earlier complaints were alluding more to spellcheck NOT picking up on obviously wrong mistakes— not inventing its whole own incorrect grammar as it's doing here (and as I've experienced as well)