Microsoft blocks the word Microslop on its Copilot Discord, bans users, and locks channels after backlash, showing tensions around its AI push
  • raker@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    6 days ago

    TIL the term Microslop goes as far back as 2005 at least, when an Apple user complaint about Microslop’s PST file format in an Apple forum. Also TIL about the term Sloperator:

    Microslop and its Sloperators!

    slop operator music kicks in

  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
    10·
    5 days ago

    Solution from the old ones: We used to replace the S with a $ sign in Microsoft (or Microshaft, or “Microfos” (Microshit) if you’re Hungarian), so if you’re writing it as Micro$lop, you get a few days evasion.

    (Reason behind the abandonment of Micro$oft/Micro$haft/whatever: Windows 7, Linux and its community was much worse back then, “maybe not all companies are bad” sentiment popular in the early 10’s, people suddenly thought all the crap Micro$lop did were conspiracy theories, etc.)

    • TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.world
      3·
      5 days ago

      Here in Italy we used the winzozz calssifier. A portmanteu of “windows” and “zozzo” “sozzo” that stands for dirty, unpolished or allusive. Have fun with this lore drop

    • 7101334@lemmy.world
      11·
      5 days ago

      Not sure if it works on Discord but another old-school trick is Micro**slop

      italicizing nothing creates an invisible break in the word

  • LostWanderer@fedia.io
    12·
    5 days ago

    LOL All they need to do is stop pushing what they call “AI” into everything they make, turn it into a opt-in only feature, allowing people to remove every fucking bit of Coslop from their PCs. They don’t want to because it would prove what they already know: Microslop is a Sloperator and admitting the truth would be temporarily painful to their earnings. Fixing things would take far too long, so Microslop would prefer to not do that work. Satya needs to get over it and admit defeat.

    • hraegsvelmir@ani.social
      2·
      5 days ago

      They’re probably just terrified of being the ones to burst the bubble if they do that. It would be a pretty damning indictment of the “success” of AI if their telemetry revealed that the majority of users disable it completely once they learn that it’s possible. The whole thing is only being held up by the illusions of it being ubiquitous and already widely used by people. If their own hard data demonstrate that the majority prefer to remove or disable it completely, that would be a disaster for them. Their entire current business plan, as well as the investments of the last few years, suddenly vanish in a puff of smoke as soon as word gets out, and I’m sure they know it.

      • LostWanderer@fedia.io
        1·
        5 days ago

        That would be Satya’s major fear…Which is why they desperately cling to the lie of “AI” and are trying to jam it into everything. They need to cause everyone to believe the hopeposting, gaslighting, make sure the unhinged techbros cling to LLM bullshit like it will save their lives. As if Microslop fails, like you said, their major investment in LLM and machine learning will vanish in a rancid fart cloud that everyone will smell from miles away. As a lot of companies will be affected by the admission of defeat.

  • Janx@piefed.socialEnglish
    43·
    5 days ago

    Anything but address the core issue. Consumers overwhelmingly see almost no benefit from AI, are sick of it being stuffed into everything, sick of being forced to use it at work, sick of being forced to fund it in our retirement accounts, sick of our water being used for it in the datacenters they’re building, and sick of consumer products being out of stock or skyrocketing in price because of it… Banning a word won’t solve any of that!