'Hell-like annoyance' criticized for input support tools that recommend more non-discriminatory terms in Google Docs



Since April 2022, Google has been providing an AI-based input support tool called '

assistive writing ' for Google Docs, which allows you to create and edit documents online. Assistive writing is said to help users create comprehensive documents that are more appropriate, concise, and avoid discriminatory elements, but foreign media Motherboard is 'hellishly annoying ' about this assistive writing. It is reported that.

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Assistive writing is an input support tool that has been released for some users who use the paid plan of Google Workspace since April 2022, and it is enabled by default for the target users. The tool is said to help create comprehensive text that is more appropriate, concise, and avoids discriminatory terms, but Motherboard writers have blamed the tool for imperfections. ..

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai, a senior staff writer on Motherboard, said 'annoyed' and assistive writing was 'angry' and 'upset' to improve the flow of the text. ) ”Is reported to have been recommended to be paraphrased. Franceschi-Bicchierai points out that frustration, anger, and upset are completely different emotions. For writer Franceschi-Bicchierai, the suggestion for assistive writing seems to have been very clumsy.



Also, when editor Emily Lipstein entered the name of the media, 'Motherboard,' he said, 'Such words may not be comprehensive for all readers. Consider paraphrasing them. Please do it. ' This seems to be an instruction to give more consideration to the LGBTQ + people about the word 'Mother', but in other words, the meaning of the media name changes completely, and ' Motherboard ' in the first place. ' Motherboard ' is also a term that refers to the main electronic circuit boards in electronic devices.



In addition, journalist Rebecca Baird-Remba reports that she was warned to paraphrase the word 'landlord' into words such as 'property owner' or 'proprietor'. ..



So Motherboard editors Samantha Cole and Tim Marchman said they tried assistive writing in various interviews and speeches. Then, in the famous speech ' I Have a Dream ' by Martin Luther King Jr. (Reverend King), he proposed to paraphrase the sentence 'the fierce urgency of now' to 'the intense urgency of now'. , John F. Kennedy 's inauguration speech also warned that 'for all man kind' should be paraphrased as 'for all human kind'.

Also, in an interview with David Duke , a former top executive of the white supremacist Ku Klux Klan (KKK) , Duke talks about 'black hunting' using and using the N-word , which is a discriminatory expression for blacks. Despite this, assistive writing did not issue a warning. Meanwhile, radical feminist Valerie Solanas ' SCUM Manifesto has received more warnings than Duke's interview, and assistive writing has also warned the wording of the Bible. Cole reports.

In response to Motherboard's inquiry, Google said, 'asssitive writing uses a language comprehension model and relies on millions of common phrases and sentences to automatically learn how people communicate. It means that assistive writing can reflect some human cognitive biases. '' Our technology is constantly improving, and a complete solution for identifying and mitigating unwanted word associations and biases is available. Not yet (maybe not in the future) '.



Cole is certainly more accurate in 'Police officers' than in 'Policemen, ' and attempts to translate the programming terms 'blacklist' and 'master / slave' into non-racist ones are also technical terms. We admit that it is one way to deal with long-standing prejudice. However, he pointed out that each word has a different meaning and background, and it is important for people who use the word to be aware of the subtle differences and to be able to convey them to the reader. 'In the extreme, if someone wants to write racist, sexist, or exclusive text in Google Docs, the algorithm doesn't try to distract the reader and confuse the reader. , Should be allowed to write the original claim. '

Also, while it is important to think and write away from the binary opposition elements such as 'mother' and 'father', there are actually some people who are 'mothers' and 'fathers'. Cole points out that anyone who wants to write about their 'mother' or 'father' should be aware of it. 'It's irrelevant to try to push self-awareness, sensitivity, and careful editing into people's writings using machine learning algorithms that are already known to be deeply flawed and often ignorant.' ..

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