Microsoft CEO Begs Users to Stop Calling It "Slop"
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In a year-end writeup on the state of AI, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella made it clear he'd really like us to stop saying "slop."
  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
    30·
    17 days ago

    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?

    • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de
      8·
      17 days ago

      Absolutely blows my mind at how much up their own asses they are to smell those farts.

      They keep creating tools to create images, video, text, content. They’re replacing people with machines. Sure, this can have tangible benefits in some roles, especially dangerous ones, but they aren’t doing that. What in satan’s fuck is left in life if we don’t get to create, to build, to have purpose? Did they all collectively watch Wall-E and get the wrong message?

      I always come back to that one scene in Star Trek: Insurrection:

      Sojef: Our technological abilities are not apparent because we have chosen not to employ them in our daily lives. We believe that when you create a machine to do the work of a man, you take something away from the man.

      While in that context, they took it a bit to the extreme, it is still poignant.

      It seems the timeline right now is Office Space -> Wall-E -> Idiocracy -> Mad Max.

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
      2·
      17 days ago

      Who the fuck cares about users, we’ve already got their money. We only care about keeping the shareholders happy.

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
    18·
    17 days ago

    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!

    • MotoAsh@piefed.socialEnglish
      3·
      17 days ago

      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.

      • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
        3·
        17 days ago

        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.

        • MotoAsh@piefed.socialEnglish
          1·
          17 days ago

          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”