With all this autocomplete in Gmail and Outlook, do you suspect it's mining my composition to suggest completions for me? For others? If I tab, is that a training point?


(That one's pretty innocuous, but I complained in Outlook that the suggestions were so long it was slowing me down... I was composing as I typed and reading through the suggestions to see if they were better. They weren't. They only wasted my time.)

I mean, of course they're stealing our labor, right? Even though I'm just a coder, my English degree doesn't appreciate what this blog called [in this case talking about captchas and Street View ids for Google]...

... yet another ruse devised by Google to make you train their robots for free

I recently bought a domain for personal email and was going to try it out with Fastmail as the host. This kinda pushes up the timetable on that experiment [he said as he typed into his Google-hosted blog].

Edit: This one's a little better example of robo-suggesting (and is actually what I was going to write), though still not nearly as bad as what I got in Outlook, which was nearly writing my email itself.



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