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This makes me want to call it slop even more.
Microsoft wants people to stop calling AI content slop. People want Microsoft to stop pushing slop.
I predict nobody will get what they want.
I care about what Microsoft wants about as much as Microsoft cares about what I want.
Microslop wants people to stop calling their AI slop "slop"? Well stop making slop then.
arguing that humanity needs to learn to accept AI as the “new equilibrium” of human nature.
So the bubble has reached the desperation phase already?
Disrespectfully, no.
“We need to get beyond the arguments of slop vs sophistication,” Nadella wrote in a rambling post flagged by Windows Central, arguing that humanity needs to learn to accept AI as the “new equilibrium” of human nature.
I’m starting to notice a recent trend in tech CEOs. They seem to be saying “yes, we know you hate it but too bad get used to it”.
That's definitely not a modern trend. That's what they always say when people don't like their decisions. Unless there's a board of directors with their hand up the CEO's ass parroting the appology for them, they will never admit wrongdoing.
They're narcissistic pieces of shit. All of them.
Yup. First they give the middle finger to their customers, then they do it to their investors. Because who is punishing them?
Come on people, think of the shareholders! /$
Slop, MicroSlope, MacroSlop, it's BS all the same.
It is slop
Go fuck yourself
Give people an OS that works and works in a way that's a dumb pipe without AI "improvements"
I won't stop permanently.. REMIND ME IN THREE DAYS
Microsoft users beg CEO to stop being shit
Fine. Lets call it shit instead.
I would be mad if my failing products were dismissed and criticized by calling them "slop"
Typical corporate bullshit, trying to hog all the credit.
How about if we call it MicroSlop? That way everyone associates Microsoft with AI slop, which is what they're becoming. They should want to promote their commitment to AI, right?
MicroSlop it is. Let's all help them with their crowd-sourced rebranding!
Get it while it’s hot!

Now now, let's save some of that vitriol for the rest of these tech clowns. Microslop are not the first nor the only rich pieces of shit pushing for this stuff.
Yeah, but this is the guy trying to silence us at the moment, and the label fits so well. We can still add slop to every other brand name, too. MicroSlop doesn't have a trademark on it.
Or maybe they do. If I were them, I'd trademark it and get the domain name, just to keep anybody else from using it against me. Hmm, brb...
Yep, someone already got it, and it's not Microsoft.
ohhhh hopefully they're as pissed off at AI as they should be. That'd be great for it to become a parody of some sort... Especially if it were a strong satire of their main website to the point where it'd confuse old people and others that fall for phishing scams. Make it look identical to MS except for all the obviously 'generated' text and images...
Then the more you confuse people and the more attention it gets, the better. Not only will the confused think MS is really misusing machine 'learning', but if you ended up sued by MS because idiots got confused over the obvious satire... oh man, that'd be a glorious court case.
"You see, your honor, I made it abundantly clear they were signing up for Microslop OnẹDrive, Not Microsoft OneDrive"
It lives and dies by consumer demands? That hasn't been the case since we started this fucking race. It has pretty much been an Investment run enterprise since the very start. Name a single LLM derived product that is consciously being bought by consumers. It's all subscription based models that don't deliver on their promises. Nothing is living up to its promise.
Where is the AI that I can say: plan an appointment with my dad. And it links our agendas, sets the alarm, orders a bottle of wine, asks me to order an uber because im out of gas, and otherwise i should leave a bit earlier. Where are the actually smart intelligent assistants?
Well, I'd really like not being fed slop. Quit serving it to me, and I'll quit complaining.
There was this audio book thing we used to have when I was in kindergarten. It was about farm animals, and each animal had its own sound effects. Pigs had the sound effect of a man saying the phrase "sloppity sloppity sloppity slop, sloppity sloppity sloppity slop".
This is now my mantra whenever I see AI slop.
Maybe we should start chanting it en masse at these tech conventions any time AI is being discussed as anything more than a massive waste of resources.
The whole naming is wrong though. It's not an intelligence. He should've said LLM content.
We need to get beyond the arguments of slop vs sophistication," Nadella laments, emphasizing hopes that society will become more accepting of AI, or what Nadella describes as "cognitive amplifier tools." "...and develop a new equilibrium in terms of our “theory of the mind” that accounts for humans being equipped with these new cognitive amplifier tools as we relate to each other.
That's from a link in the article
And it's completely coherent!
Say it with me:
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This man has absolutely no idea how basic human behavior works. This will only increase the use of the "slop" label. Does he only interact with employees in his life?
Begs? Nah. Click bait.
Aw shucks, I came down with the AI psychosis, and it told me to just keep hitting Nadella in the face with a 12 lb mechanical keyboard untill he reboots correctly and stops just printing out arcane error codes...
I... I gotta do it... he's got the ... the seahorse emjois, he's hiding them!
Same place he keeps all his pictures of my desktop!
Where in that article is the quote where Nadella can reasonably be described as "begging"?
Microslop
so, what's the general feeling? is Nadella a worse CEO than Ballmer?
Ballmer resulted in some good memes
Copy/pasting a comment I wrote the other day on a post about OneDrive stealing and deleting your files:
I knew back when Windows 10 came out and the lead of their cloud division replaced Ballmer that Windows was gonna turn into a shit show, but in my wildest nightmares I wouldn't have predicted what they're doing now.
Ballmer was an idiot capitalist who only made exclusive deals to push windows rather than software advancement people actually wanted.
Nadella is doing the same thing but with AI and end user subscriptions.
“We need to get beyond the arguments of slop vs sophistication,” Nadella wrote in a rambling post flagged by Windows Central, arguing that humanity needs to learn to accept AI as the “new equilibrium” of human nature. (As WC points out, there’s actually growing evidence that AI harms human cognitive ability.)
Going on, Nadella said that we now know enough about “riding the exponentials of model capabilities” as well as managing AI’s “‘jagged’ edges” to allow us to “get value of AI in the real world.”
“Ultimately, the most meaningful measure of progress is the outcomes for each of us,” the CEO concludes, in an impressive deluge of corporate-speak that may or may not itself be AI-generated. “It will be a messy process of discovery, like all technology and product development always is.”
TLDR: That's not what he said and rehashing the same interview in article after article with this frankly clickbait headline is getting old.
Fuck Nadella and his AI bullshit, but could we not keep rehashing this?
Calling all AI use slop is like calling all e-mail spam.
99.9% of emails are spam or at the very least unsolicited. 99.9% of AI content is useless, wrong or disturbing, thus, slop. And both these numbers are generous estimates, it's probably closer to 99.99% slop and spam.
Right, the vast majority by volume.
What's the most concrete use case for AI that justifies its existence?
Diffusion almost lives up to its hype. It is CGI for dummies, and will produce photorealistic video with less effort than hand-drawing a stick figure. LLMs might disappear entirely, with every aspect of their design replaced, but 'remove all the pixels that don't look like Hatsune Miku impregnating Goku' actually works. God help us all.
The practical future is in "diffusion forcing," where a human artist can draw however many frames they like, and the robot can only fill in the gaps. If the robot does something wrong... draw more frames between stuff. One frame per second and a say-what-you-see description will probably suffice.
We can presumably also expect variations that finish sketchy animatics, but that's always going to be less art-driven than artists would like. Absolute maniacs like James Baxter can feed in a pencil version of a camera orbiting a ballroom dance, but the robot will emit a broadly similar motion in finished quality. It's better-off being used to turn on-fours into on-ones.
I don't think people are calling all AI slop. But if most actual use of AI is creating slop, people will associate the two. Also, it shows the technology isn't as groundbreaking or universally applicable as advertised...
Some people are unambiguously calling all AI slop.
Advertising shits in your brain, but we can't let the obvious lies of obvious liars obscure how neural networks are a whole new kind of software. Even these stupid chatbots let anyone write the old kinds of software. There's a guy on Youtube who built a camera to visualize the speed of a laser in flight. Halfway through the video about integrating a hilariously sensitive photodiode and a high-precision motor system, he completely hand-waves the code for everything you actually see.
None of this is going to disappear when the bubble bursts. The dotcom bubble didn't kill the web. We've demonstrated that a DVD's worth of linear algebra can turn plain English into amateur Python, and suggesting that will soon be lost to history is absurd. Your IDE's gonna have an autocomplete where Clippy does what you fucking tell him. It's just not going to be the as-a-service remote computing bullshit these vultures are betting on, because remote computing has been a stupid idea for at least half a century. Spicy autocomplete will be another tool in the menu... like normal autocomplete. We can sneer at people for using either one, but rough standards and working code move the world.





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