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AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
(www.irishtimes.com)
this post was submitted on 20 Jan 2026
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Wow it really is heading towards crisis point when you have people saying "keep feeding the beast or it'll eat us".
Maybe WHO could declare a mental health emergency and mandate a lockdown and minimum 8 hours per day of AI use. And ban references to 'slop' - It's really bad for the mental health of the billionaires when they hear their scam referred to as 'slop'.
2025-2026 - Year of the Linux Desktop
That pic is cross-referenced with SnakeOil peddler in the dictionary xD
Heh heh
Sloppy Nadella says wut?
Going by title alone, sounds like a false flag. If people that are against read it, they could feel like they're in a comfortable spot and lower pressure. And with so many companies implementing LLMs to their services, the push growing weaker would allow these companies to gain even more space, for there is no vacuum in power.
Still need to read the article itself, but manipulation by headlines is a common strategy.
Maybe, but speaking for myself, my revulsion to the way they are currently trying to use AI is nothing short of visceral. No headline has a chance. It is such an intrusion to personal privacy, and toward incredibly bad ends all around, that I don't give a shit what they say at all.
To get past that, they'd have to stop trying to data farm everything that crosses someone's monitor, stop using AI to support and further large-scale national operations like genocide, and not use every word that anyone's ever written that they can get their hands on to train their LLMs. Oh, and something more than a "You're overreacting!" when it is pointed out that AI output is not at all neutral, but shaped to deliver their own chosen narratives, which its devotees tend to accept without question. They could even -- and I know this is a novel concept -- pay authors and artists for all the work they used without consent and without compensation.
It'll never happen. And I will never not hate AI, for all of these reasons and more (like how they took my fucking em-dash and made it unnatural, so now I'm taking it back).
TL;DR: I hate AI so much and so deeply it's automatic, there's literally nothing they can say I would care about, and the more they try the more repulsed I am. Fuck 'em all.
If anything in the stupid rumour-mill that is modern mainstream news can be true, can it please be that this AI bubble bursts in spectacular .COM style
AI will do fine without Microsoft, nor does it need Palantir and Dogey America. As someone who likes and supports AI, I don't want crappy institutions to influence how it develops.
Anyhow, I will be switching to SteamOS Desktop when that is available. Or Cachy, when Microsoft starts using AI to spy on people.
Let's make this AI boom a thud!
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Well shit here's to hoping they're right.
If no one buys these shoes that fall apart after breaking their toes, the growth of the Shoes-That-Injure-The-Wearer industry could really take a hit!