{"id":252884,"date":"2022-04-30T06:28:55","date_gmt":"2022-04-30T06:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=252884"},"modified":"2022-05-02T06:59:58","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T06:59:58","slug":"report-google-turns-off-newspeak-correction-tool-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=252884","title":{"rendered":"Report: Google Turns Off \u2018Newspeak\u2019 Correction Tool (For Now)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Steve Watson \u2013 SUMMIT News April 27, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong>Google claims that it has disabled a feature within its document editor that was correcting language to make it \u2018more inclusive\u2019, but only while it refines the tool to make it work more effectively.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2022\/04\/25\/report-google-rolls-out-feature-that-corrects-you-with-woke-inclusive-language\/\">we reported<\/a> Monday, Google Docs was trialling \u2018inclusive warnings\u2019, which act like a language checker, suggesting that users refrain from using terms such as \u2018policeman\u2019 or \u2018landlord\u2019, because they are gendered, and words like \u2018fierce\u2019 and \u2018annoyed\u2019 for being threatening.<\/p>\n<p>Critics (even ones with rainbow flags in the bio) compared the move to the Ministry of Truth from Orwell\u2019s 1984, policing language and making sure that its\u00a0<em>Newspeak<\/em>\u00a0is implemented whenever necessary.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Fully automated newspeak.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2mSkvRQ1T5\">https:\/\/t.co\/2mSkvRQ1T5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; dickcomley \ud83c\udded\ud83c\uddf0 (@ComleyRitchie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ComleyRitchie\/status\/1518503753741221888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 25, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;Don\u2019t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 George Orwell<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/D9An9jPgOc\">https:\/\/t.co\/D9An9jPgOc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Debbie Hayton \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\u26a7\ufe0f\ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08 (@DebbieHayton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DebbieHayton\/status\/1518666954051096578?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 25, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Now, following the backlash, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/google-pauses-woke-feature-that-suggests-inclusive-language-to-users\">The Daily Wire<\/a> notes that Google is pausing the tool.<\/p>\n<p>Google spokeswoman Jenny Thomson told the outlet that \u201cinclusive language suggestions\u2014an assisted writing feature\u2014can over or undercorrect certain phrases. We\u2019re looking more carefully at the inclusive language suggestions and have paused those for further review while we continue to improve this feature.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a creepy admission, Thomson noted that the feature is \u201ca form of AI that uses language understanding models, based on millions of common phrases and sentences, to automatically learn how people communicate and suggest changes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In comments to the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2022\/04\/23\/big-brother-sorry-big-person-correcting-google\/\"> Telegraph<\/a>, Big Brother Watch\u2019s Silkie Carlo urged that \u201cGoogle\u2019s new word warnings aren\u2019t assistive, they\u2019re deeply intrusive,\u201d adding that \u201cThis speech-policing is profoundly clumsy, creepy and wrong, often reinforcing bias.\u201d<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R7Pkcg3DdOY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8212;<\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><em>The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of Ingsoc, but to make all other modes of thought impossible.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><em>There was no vocabulary expressing the function of Science as a habit of mind, or a method of thought irrespective of its particular branches. There was, indeed, no word for \u2018Science,\u2019 any meaning that it could possibly bear being already sufficiently covered by the word Ingsoc.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALERT!<\/strong> In the age of mass Silicon Valley censorship It is crucial that we stay in touch.<\/p>\n<p>We need you to sign up for our free newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/newsletter\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Support our sponsor \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/TURBOFORCE\">Turbo Force<\/a> \u2013 a supercharged boost of clean energy without the comedown.<\/p>\n<p>Also, we urgently need your financial support <a href=\"https:\/\/www.subscribestar.com\/paul-joseph-watson\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2022\/04\/27\/report-google-turns-off-newspeak-correction-tool-for-now\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After backlash, Google says: \u201cWe\u2019re looking more carefully at the inclusive language suggestions and have paused those for further review\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":195501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mind_control","category-The_Media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252884"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252922,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252884\/revisions\/252922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/195501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}