The source article from routers covers this better:
His curiosity piqued, Kauffman said he used a combination of OpenAI’s Codex and Anthropic’s Claude Code to hunt for a reason why, eventually stumbling on a compendium stored “deep in the bowels” of Apple’s operating system. He said there were different ways to count the number of gray-listed words and phrases and their various permutations, but a conservative estimate would put them at about 100,000
So he’s talking about phrases and permutations in multiple languages. I guess 100k can make sense in that context. They also link to this. It explains how some words are tagged as “sensitive”. It just sounds like they want to make sure the keyboard doesn’t autocorrect to something offensive. I think there are about 100k bigger issues than that.
The source article from routers covers this better:
His curiosity piqued, Kauffman said he used a combination of OpenAI’s Codex and Anthropic’s Claude Code to hunt for a reason why, eventually stumbling on a compendium stored “deep in the bowels” of Apple’s operating system. He said there were different ways to count the number of gray-listed words and phrases and their various permutations, but a conservative estimate would put them at about 100,000
So he’s talking about phrases and permutations in multiple languages. I guess 100k can make sense in that context. They also link to this. It explains how some words are tagged as “sensitive”. It just sounds like they want to make sure the keyboard doesn’t autocorrect to something offensive. I think there are about 100k bigger issues than that.