Android predictive text keeps suggesting 'sit on my face,' and Google is fixing it

Google has promised to stop its Android phones from suggesting "my face" when its users text "sit on." 

Cory Doctorow came close to a disaster when he texted his kids' babysitter, "Hey! Are you free to sit" and Android's predictive text came up with "on my face." 

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"Needless to say, I have never entered that string into my Android device," he insisted in his tweet. 

I was SMSing our babysitter with the default Android SMS app; I typed "Hey! Are you free to sit" and autocomplete came up with "on my face." Needless to say, I have never entered that string into my Android device. (This is not a joke)

— son of an asylum seeker, father of an immigrant (@doctorow) July 27, 2018 Read more...

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