Gboard may be blocking 'Chinese virus,' similar terms from appearing in autocomplete results

They're on an 'emergency bad words' list

Gboard, like many keyboard apps, provides users with suggestions on how to complete their words, phrases, or even sentences. It recently adopted federated learning, sampling anonymous user data to serve up-to-date autocomplete results featuring very new terms in our fast-moving human culture. Of course, some phrases aren't particularly suited for a wide audience or are just plain offensive. And with active, constant discourse surrounding the novel coronavirus, Google is reportedly rushing to ban some words and phrases from appearing in the Gboard autocomplete bar.

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Gboard may be blocking 'Chinese virus,' similar terms from appearing in autocomplete results was written by the awesome team at Android Police.


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