The article reflects on the author's unique upbringing split between rural America and urban life, showcasing the cultural conflicts this creates. The author discusses humorous yet frustrating experiences with autocorrect on their iPhone, which often misinterprets rural terminology. For instance, phrases like "snaring rabbits" and "gigging frogs" are changed to more urban-friendly terms. This highlights the broader issue of potential biases in AI language applications, particularly how they might overlook or misinterpret rural vernacular, further emphasizing the divide between different lifestyles and language usage.
I spent about half my life in very rural areas of America learning how to hunt and fish. For the other half, of course, I've been in cities.
My somewhat unique cultural perspective can also be an asset, like when I notice weird things happening with the autocorrect features on my Apple iPhone.
It seems my iPhone is intent on manual strangulation as opposed to a quick and neat spear thrust, highlighting a bias in its language understanding.
I did not readily find academic research about artificial intelligence applications potentially being biased against more rural terminology.
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