Gregory's ServerWriting Tools tries to shame you if you use it on profanity — it pops up a modal dialog if your source material has swear words —, but then it goes and works anyway?
So what is the point of the alert?
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 I mean, seriously. Who OK'd the kind of user experience that will yell at you, every time, for no reason if it even slightly disapproves of your language. What kind of bubble are you living in? Me: summarize this @daringfireball paragraph “Apple Intelligence”: it's a bit too spicy for me  Even Safari's Reader mode alerts you that it doesn't want to summarize @gruber’s post. Nanny Apple has gone way too far.  @stroughtonsmith @gruber “Writing Tools aren’t…” is a bit jarring, too. What’s next, Siri telling us “The Lord of the Rings aren’t a good book”? I notice you used “Writing Tools tries…”, and I’m struggling to picture Apple going with “Writing Tools try…” even though that would be consistent with “Writing Tools aren’t…”. Then again, this is the same company that gave us “iPhone is…”/“…on iPhone”.  @whereami @stroughtonsmith I'm OK with that grammatically. Writing Tools are a collection of features, not a singular feature. @gruber @stroughtonsmith to me it seems like it’s the name of one thing that happens to have a plural name, just like Pages, Numbers, and Messages (and Broadcasts). Settings is a collection of many settings, but we’d never say “Settings are”. Maybe they should update this text to “Writing Tools have exited” for consistency? 😛 https://mastodon.social/@stroughtonsmith/113381405738433516   @stroughtonsmith so what I’m hearing is this is a useless feature that’s just bloating the OS and being in the way for funsies? I mean I’m not surprised but like… oof Don't have any complaints about the feature, though. It works about as well as I'd expect! Searching 'Wikipedia' in Siri right now (Apple Intelligence or not) brings up some… ‘choice’… results  Writing Tools is the gift that keeps on giving. It throws up the content warning dialog so often that I'm starting to wonder what it actually *can* do. But this is the first crash I've seen  ‘Don’t make such a big deal about this, it’s unfinished. It’ll get better’ Listen, I’m not the one that redesigned the (clearly, not even slightly improved) Siri dialog in neon and overlaid two different fancy animations 😂 This ships like this, tomorrow  @stroughtonsmith Also, the current OS releases are so buggy, probably the buggiest ones since iOS 11… Apple Intelligence took up so much bandwidth and development time for *this*? I would rather have a fully functioning OS instead.  @stroughtonsmith I was genuinely surprised to find that this was all they did. I guess I’ll see how the ChatGPT integration goes. My least favourite Siri response “here’s some results I found the web”. Half the time I’m dealing with Siri it’s while I’m driving… could you maybe summarize for me? ChatGPT and bing both seem to handle this use case pretty well and have much better responses, but no system integration until now.   @stroughtonsmith They should have waited and launched it all with iOS 19. People expect a generational leap and they will not get it for a while. But Apple wanted to please shareholders, so here we are. @stroughtonsmith it is the headline-feature for the current line of hardware…it is Cupertino who made it such a big deal, not you😅  @stroughtonsmith I wonder if this is the result of more high-quality sites blocking Apple’s web crawler because it's also used for AI training  Wow. Certainly says something. 😂 Geez Siri, who edited your Wiki page, ay? 😏  @stroughtonsmith Probably just a collective term for all of the Apple Inteligence products/features  It was also available in Photomator for several years. Apple surely botched any and all product development, hasn't it *Edit* fixing typos caused by the botched iOS keyboard   @stroughtonsmith @daringfireball That's fucking weak sauce. Pathetic — really — from Apple.  @stroughtonsmith it does not judge your language AFAIK. That is a generic "error" message when the model cannot result with anything (or result with garbage) @krzyzanowskim in every case, this shows up when language is used. In every case, you can click continue and it works anyway  @stroughtonsmith @krzyzanowskim If not intentional, then it is an oversight. People use vulgarity and sometimes say unkind things. Apple needs to account for that. @stroughtonsmith 🤔 haha that is funny. I not necessary work(ed) like that just a week ago. I have sample text that when I select paragraph, it alert that it can't work with with. but when select whole text, it's ok with it. @krzyzanowskim it's real easy to test; I don't know if it has trigger words but most likely it's making a content judgment at the LLM level  @stroughtonsmith probably designed to give you a heads up that it will excise or skip over any content like that? So people don’t accuse it of “sanitizing” without letting you know it’s not what it was designed for first.  |
@stroughtonsmith to consistently not treat you like an adult.