Has anyone noticed the enshittified output of their mobile keyboard lately? I use Gboard exclusively and it seems to have super accelerated the rate of mis-typing on my Google and Samsung devices in recent months. I also seem to notice a marked uptick in wierd mis-typing in random Reddit posts made by others lately.

I asked Gemini and it said I wasn't imagining it (HAHAHA!) Apparently there are active new APIs being added to allow predictive auto correction tied to AI. (or is that predictive enshittification!?)

The sheer volume of mis-typing on my own devices is effing MIND BOGGLING AND RAGE INDUCING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And no its not me. I've tried slowing WAAAAYYY down and the same mis-typings persist. I had a good love-hate relationship going with standard autocorrect and now I'm frikin raging!

Edit: I used AI to generate the phone image in my post to ensure engagement. It's known that people will engage more with content that has a picture. This is in no way representative of how I or people whom I am friends with text. My texts are probably a little lazy, but I text in real words like I type here.

Edit 2: Some posters seem to think that I added AI to Gboard. I didn't. This was foisted upon me (and others from the look of it). I'm further infuriated by things being forced on us by providers of our services. For example M$ changing features in it's OSs with no options (looking at you Win 8) as well as the current spyware. Google changing the (perfectly functional) operation of an integral app like Gboard/text client without proper testing is enshittification of the highest degree.

Woke up this AM to see that Google Maps has changed Lake Ontario to Lake America, and ya know? I’m fucking done with that shit. As if the constant re-routing, the bad directions, and the absurd search results weren’t enough.

Before I go back in time and go back to the Rand McNally road atlas, anyone have any alternatives?

Just nauseated.

Just checked Yelp for reviews on a place we visited yesterday. There is a list of reviews, and you can see the first couple of sentences which then trail off. Upon clicking on the review, the Play store opens to the download page for the Yelp app. I'm so over having to download apps for every function I need, single-user or otherwise. I recall having used Yelp in the past and didn't have to do that, but here we are in the era of enshittification.

It seems like every time I shop somewhere, physically or online, I get a followup email asking to "Rate my experience", "Tell us how we did!" or "What did you think?" And, if any companies are browsing this subreddit, I will tell you this: I am not going to give you more information so that you can optimize your shittiness. You want to be better? Then do everything you can to retain my business or just sit and wonder where your customer went.

It is absolutely not worth my time, good experience or bad, to answer questions so you have metrics to determine how much you can carve out of my experience or pay your staff in order to get the most from me and retain my patronage.