Google has reportedly paused an “inclusive language” function that replaces words in Google Docs that it deems politically incorrect. “However,” she noted, “inclusive language suggestions—an assisted writing feature—can over or undercorrect certain phrases. News that it has been paused followed criticism that the feature was intrusive, woke and “very broken,” as Vice reported. Transgender activist Debbie Hayton suggested that Google’s inclusivity feature was Orwellian, tweeting, “Don’t 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."

Source: The Times April 26, 2022 18:25 UTC