So 2026 will be the year of AI slop then.
the year of the linux desktop is getting delayed AGAIN?!
No, that's getting pushed up in the schedule. It's happening NOW!
I genuinely think last year was the "year of the Linux desktop" and will likely be looked at that way in the future. I know multiple people IRL who have moved to it not because they couldn't use 11 but because they were fed up with all of the nonsense from Microsoft.
Just Slop. AI is silent.
Tough shit, Sloppysoft.
Sloppysoft or Microslop?
Debating which word to add to my lexicon this year.
I'd be down with both, but my heart is with Microslop. Keeping the first six letters the same really gears the listener up to hear "microsoft" before pulling the rug out from under 'em
Yes, Microslop is the clear choice here. If you say "sloppysoft" no one will have any idea what you're talking about.
Then stop spewing slop everywhere, AI or not
"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."
There's that word 'hope' again. It seems to be the main driving force behind a.i. implementation.
Also, I think "cognitive real-time amplifier product" makes for a better acronym.
Talk about putting the cart before the fucking horse.
Calling them “cognitive amplifier tools” doesn’t make them “cognitive amplifier tools”. They’ve yet to show that they do anything of the sort.
Spitting out some basic code that probably has to be edited anyway is not a “cognitive amplifier tool”.
Generating smooth skinned avatars with questionable anatomy is not a “cognitive amplifier tool”.
Writing creepy, repetitive prose is not a “cognitive amplifier tool”.
Hell, the term “cognitive amplifier tool” is just nonsense anyway. For fuck’s sake, I hate these people.
That term really creeped me out. It's so cringey to a point that it scares me. Delusional asshole.
Given that he talks like an LLM trained exclusively on MBA bullshit, he’s only adding to the problem.
I've never heard Satya Nadella say a single thing that wasn't just buzzword garbage. He's like a human slop-generating machine. Maybe that's why he can't recognize AI slop when he sees it.
There's that word 'hope' again. It seems to be the main driving force behind a.i. implementation.
"Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torment of man." - Friedrich Nietzsche
Dude's gonna be disappointed when it's still called slop because people recognize it as slop
The "hope" is that they will make shitloads of money from gullible dipshits buying their bullshit.
Ok, we'll call it "trash" then
I remember when Microsoft wanted to call sharing songs "Squirting".
https://www.zdnet.com/article/i-guess-squirting-a-la-zune-didnt-turn-out-to-be-so-fashionable/
That means you can squirt some slop to a zune
Sounds like how to make a plumbus
It will be called slop even more then.
What are they going to do in 5 years when the internet is 99% slop? How will then train the models then? Will we be forever stuck with 2025-2026 models because there isnt enough new human content to train on?
Money line go up in the short term. Who cares if they're creating a hallucinating slop ouroboros that will ruin the internet for the foreseeable future? That's the next CEO's problem!
Even if they burnt the whole planet to have a more accurate slop, I'd still call that "slop" in 2026. And the years after.
May I suggest an innovative approach to this challenge that will optimize the objective of the CEO to not ascertain that his product is shit. The guillotine
I think "sludge" would be a good alternative
If it sounds like a duck and looks like a duck, I’m calling it a duck.
Once it stops being slop, I’ll stop calling it what it is.
It’s not the general public’s fault that AI was released before it was ready for prime time. It’s not like the word “slop” was picked out of a hat, either. AI earned the word with its laughably bad output.
I’ll make the CEO a deal, though. If AIs stop producing slop, I won’t call it slop anymore.
Microsoft Copilot is the tip of the spear for the firm, powered entirely by ChatGPT and Microsoft's savvy early investments in OpenAI.
“Savvy”? Really? I think it’s years too early to make that assessment.
Indeed, in closing, Nadella seems to admit that AI doesn't truly have "societal permission" right now, referencing widespread backlash and mockery that continues to dog the technology.
What kind of “permission” is he looking for? Permission to steal and ignore copyright? Permission to build untold numbers of data centers and do vast environmental damage? Permission to lie and sell a substandard product? He probably wants all three, and more.
I'm going to continue calling a spade a spade.
we can call it AI crap then, because it basically is.
Fascists: "We don't like to be Called fascists!"
AI companies: "We don't like our slop created from stolen content to be called slop!"
i don't get it-
like.... even I call it slop- and im the mod of the qwen community-
It’s so cool that all the richest assholes in America simultaneously fell for the same ponzi scheme and instead of figuring it out they’re spending their time trying to convince everyone else that they don’t
Did they fall for it or did they see a way to fleece investors for billions?
And here I was thinking that AI provides MS with cover for their sloppy OS bugs and lack of innovation or even bug fixes in their other products (Word's automatically generated table of authorities feature has been a buggy piece of trash since it came out and fixing it is obviously not on the agenda since it is really only used by people like lawyers; let's not even get into the random behavior that occurs when pasting or moving images).
This has to be the most pathetic thing I've ever read. A CEO just asking people to stop saying mean things about the garbage he's pushing out.
It's just so pathetic. I'd be embarrassed if I were affiliated with his company in any way.
yeah, nah. I don't think I'll be doing that, actually.
Likely they realise that the more it's called slop, the more it will be rejected by customers. Similar to how if I see a Hallmark movie, I skip. Most people will learn to avoid ai. Some will be fine with it. However, probably not those with any taste or influence, not the marketers desirable audience.
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