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[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 375 points 6 days ago (4 children)

So 2026 will be the year of AI slop then.

[–] seraphine@lemmy.blahaj.zone 103 points 6 days ago (7 children)

the year of the linux desktop is getting delayed AGAIN?!

[–] Dogiedog64@lemmy.world 30 points 6 days ago (2 children)

No, that's getting pushed up in the schedule. It's happening NOW!

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 252 points 6 days ago (4 children)
[–] Technus@lemmy.zip 140 points 6 days ago (11 children)

Sloppysoft or Microslop?

Debating which word to add to my lexicon this year.

[–] thurstylark@lemmy.today 115 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] extremeboredom@lemmy.world 45 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yes, Microslop is the clear choice here. If you say "sloppysoft" no one will have any idea what you're talking about.

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[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 169 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

It will be called slop even more then.

[–] Baggie@lemmy.zip 80 points 6 days ago (18 children)

If you don't want it to be slop, don't grind culture into a slurry, run half the worlds electricity through it, all for it to generate child porn. Actually fuck off.

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[–] bytesonbike@discuss.online 157 points 6 days ago (4 children)
[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 106 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That means you can squirt some slop to a zune

[–] Stamau123@lemmy.world 38 points 6 days ago

Sounds like how to make a plumbus

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[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 134 points 6 days ago (10 children)

"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.

[–] IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.wtf 48 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Given that he talks like an LLM trained exclusively on MBA bullshit, he’s only adding to the problem.

[–] LordMayor@piefed.social 37 points 6 days ago (5 children)

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.

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[–] drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 31 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

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

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[–] shittydwarf@piefed.social 122 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)
[–] blackjam_alex@lemmy.world 65 points 6 days ago (1 children)
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[–] Sequentialsilence@lemmy.world 86 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] Enzy@feddit.nu 29 points 5 days ago
[–] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 35 points 6 days ago (3 children)

So stop calling the slop slop?

Gee I dunno, maybe start by making an OS that isn’t so sloppy.

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[–] madjo@piefed.social 47 points 6 days ago

Microsoft CEO slop needs to shut his sloppy AI mouth.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 26 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Brilliant. This will definitely work. I'm sure no one will call it slop anymore. /s

What a fuckin' idiot.

Good job, Satya, no one you pay will call it slop in front of you. That's all you accomplished, but I doubt anyone was anyway. The rest of the world will now call it slop just as often, if not more often, to spite your stupid face.

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[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 65 points 6 days ago (2 children)
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[–] hark@lemmy.world 26 points 6 days ago

and I want him to stop calling slop "AI".

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 48 points 6 days ago

Then stop spewing slop everywhere, AI or not

[–] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 54 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

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!"

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[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 33 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (6 children)

Oh, the same CEO that has systematically ruined everything the company has ever made? The same CEO that does not even have a path to profit for AI? The same CEO that admitted that they don't know how their own products really work anymore? The same one?

The CEO wants us to do a thing, and based on how they are actively pushing everything towards total clown town, I think it is in our best interest to do the opposite of what that slop CEO asks.

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[–] pleaseletmein@lemmy.zip 20 points 5 days ago
[–] bstix@feddit.dk 22 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I just setup a new laptop. Straight from the store, never been turned on before.

First thing in the Windows installation is a step called "something went wrong". Not even kidding.

MS is slop, with or without AI.

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[–] Numuruzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 6 days ago
[–] markz@suppo.fi 44 points 6 days ago

The "slop" refers to the flood of low quality "content". Therefore fixing people calling your stuff slop is simple, at least in theory.

[–] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 34 points 6 days ago

Ok, we'll call it "trash" then

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 37 points 6 days ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] Switorik@lemmy.zip 20 points 6 days ago

It's because of their massive investment into data centers. They're spending billions of dollars on them and they're expecting people to rejoice, not call them slop.

If we keep calling them slop, we might make their investors sweat a little. I think it's time to double down.

[–] wolfeh@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 5 days ago (2 children)

And I would love it if Mr. Nadella stopped working for a company whose name perfectly describes his genitals.

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[–] HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world 35 points 6 days ago (1 children)

IMMA DO IT EVEN HARDER NOW

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[–] MrSulu@lemmy.ml 24 points 6 days ago
[–] allriledup@piefed.blahaj.zone 25 points 6 days ago

yeah, nah. I don't think I'll be doing that, actually.

[–] wax@feddit.nu 35 points 6 days ago (1 children)
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[–] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 32 points 6 days ago
[–] bagsy@lemmy.world 26 points 6 days ago (5 children)

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?

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[–] BoycottTwitter@lemmy.zip 31 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

It's hard to avoid right now, particularly if you're a user of Microsoft ecosystem products.

Solution:

Windows -> Linux
Office 365 -> Libreoffice to replace most of Office 365 and to replace Outlook consider Thunderbird or Seamonkey
Edge/Chrome -> Firefox or a fork of Firefox.

[–] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 29 points 6 days ago
[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 23 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

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

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[–] scroll_responsibly@lemmy.sdf.org 25 points 6 days ago (1 children)
  • SFW: A.I. Secretions
  • NSFW: A.I. Ejaculate
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Well, when it stops being mindless slop produced thoughtlessly, we'll call it something else.

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