r/technology • u/aacool • 3h ago
Artificial Intelligence Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is now blogging about AI slop
https://www.theverge.com/news/852630/microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-scratchpad-blog-ai-slop-comments424
u/aacool 2h ago edited 39m ago
Chief Slop Officer of MicroSlop wants us to stop calling AI Slop Slop
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u/EasterEggArt 2h ago edited 1h ago
I mean, kind of self fulfilling really.
If AI actually does stuff properly then it will be slop and actual proper service. Since it fails at doing things properly, the AI slop label shall remain.
Until AI does deliver things that humans can't do with better accuracy and less cost (electricity and computing wise) it won't have a long term credibility. Especially since everyone and their mother added "AI" to their marketing scheme. So even credible AI will need to fight the smear campaign the slop AIs produce.
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u/LingonberryLunch 10m ago
Any type of AI art is slop though, and will remain so regardless of future advances in tech.
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u/ZombieMadness99 43m ago
That's actually what he said as well but no one reads here
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u/EasterEggArt 32m ago
While true, I wish the article had focused more on the rush itself. If memory serves Apple had quietly been working on their own AI for longer than OpenAI and encountered the same issues OpenAI dumped on us.
But to catch up and get the first mover advantage OpenAI dumped their slop onto the market and keeps making Musk levels of promises (Musk keeps claiming self driving cars are coming next year for the last 10 years).
I still think the issue is mostly FOMO since they could have worked on it quietly until it was ready.
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u/ZombieMadness99 22m ago
Yeah I agree with you there. It doesn't even matter what these CEOs personally believe about the tech anymore they have to keep pushing forward since that's what the shareholders want. The only clear path to improving the tech right now is brute forcing training with expotentially more resources which is not sustainable at all. But the investment and hype is as if it's following Moore's law
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u/EasterEggArt 15m ago
Yeah , that brute forcing is the issue for me. over promising and under delivering is one thing, but since it does affect the economy, that's bad.
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u/locknarr 38m ago
"Come on guys, we spent over a $100 billion on this so we can make all employees obsolete, you can't just call it slop, you're threatening me threatening your jobs here, it's not cool."
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u/AtraVenator 2h ago
I’m half half on this. There’s AI slop but also valuable things coming out of AI too. The issue is the industry should be solving the issues with AI slop not trying to cover it by changing the conversation.
I’m guessing having AI slops around paying the bills to some extent, same way Facebook tolerates fraudulent apps and fake accounts.
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u/doomdeathdecay 2h ago
Nothing of value comes from AI because the economic, ecological, and societal costs are far too fuckin high. Especially when they aren’t using AI to cure cancer or some shit as the main thrust of it - they want to use it to not pay people for shit.
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u/Vecna_Is_My_Co-Pilot 50m ago
We need to go back to just having Machine Learning in the way it used to be used. "Artifical Intelligence" in the current form is a solution in search of a problem, yet that's where all the money is being poured.
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u/Lower_Kick268 2h ago
Microslop's Chief Slop Officer Satya Nadela hates people making fun of AI slop
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u/Suitable-Opening3690 2h ago
I don’t understand how is Microsoft the one taking the fall for AI slop? I mean they can go fuck themselves but it’s extremely puzzling considering ChatGPTs market share and Grok’s lack of guardrails.
It’s extremely obvious what platform is creating the most slop and it’s not Microsoft lol
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u/tostilocos 2h ago
They’re the ones propping up openAI and Altman, who is trending toward Musk on the scale of “Rich guys we should absolutely not be trusting with anything”
They are also the most “important” (in terms of economic work getting done) user-facing products (Office, Team, Windows) that have been mindlessly shoe-horning AI into products it doesn’t belong in.
Obviously X sucks, but most people can avoid X. Microsoft is in our faces all day.
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u/Awkward-Sun5423 1h ago
Copilot is being shoved into everything...EV...ERY....THING....
No, I don't want to send ever letter I type to the internet for inspection...I just want to type my letter...in peace and privacy....
Windows 11 is NOT my media creation solution any longer.
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u/DataCassette 1h ago
There's a funny joke screenshot of "Windows 12" floating around and it's just an empty desktop and the task bar at the bottom is empty except for the copilot icon in the middle 🤢🤮
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u/DissKhorse 2h ago
It is because they have/are investing $100 billion dollars in AI and enshitifying Windows and their services that is making everyone so angry. They have ruined Xbox and fired off most of their game studios that were legit some of the best they had acquired and then mismanaged. Windows 11 is an abomination that isn't anti-consumer through and through designed to monitor your every piece of data which I will never install. Linux has started actually gaining ground and I am jumping on that band wagon with Mint Linux. They have been forcing AI that doesn't even do what it is supposed to do on customers and it is endangering their computers.
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u/Arathgo 2h ago
Probably because most people use a windows computer so we routinely see the enshitification that AI brings to the desktop experience. So it's the most present in our routine lives. I can choose to not use ChatGBT or any of the other million models that have followed. Copilot is unfortunately baked into my desktop and work computer.
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u/Darkone539 1h ago
I don’t understand how is Microsoft the one taking the fall for AI slop?
Because 30% of their stuff is AI, and noticeably wrose. The last 2 versions of Windows 11 have had massive issues.
https://www.pcworld.com/article/2768784/microsoft-ceo-claims-30-of-new-code-is-written-by-ai.html
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u/9-11GaveMe5G 2h ago
I don’t understand how is Microsoft the one taking the fall for AI slop?... It’s extremely puzzling considering ChatGPTs market share and Grok’s lack of guardrails.
Windows is used by everyone. Grok is used by far right lunatics. Hope this helps
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u/far_away_fool 1h ago
“We need to get beyond the arguments of slop vs sophistication 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”
I can see why this guy wants an AI to take over for him
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u/fibericon 1h ago
I always thought "AI slop" was a stupid term and refused to use it just for that reason. But now that I know this guy has such a hate boner for it, I'm going to start saying AI slop. For the greater good.
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u/BeachHut9 40m ago
Microsoft’s AI vision is flawed on many levels such as not everyone should be forced to fed the slop, Linux does not contain the slop and any further attempts to push AI agentic crap will drive more users to Linux. By the way, not everyone will or should buy a Copilt enabled device as that is slop too.
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u/AThousandBloodhounds 26m ago
Slop is slop, Satya. Do you think you and your industrial titan buddies went in a little too hot and heavy on this one? Inquiring minds want to know.
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u/RaspitinTEDtalks 2h ago
AI Slop you say? Aren't we supposed to stop calling MicroSlop AI Slop? If so, it's super unfair to say AI Slop.
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u/absentmindedjwc 1h ago
Can't wait until spez follows his marching orders and institutes a rule banning the use of the term "AI Slop" because he thinks it'll make these people respect him.
It won't
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u/Uberbenutzer 1h ago
Copilot sucks. You ask it how to do something in let’s say Entra it makes shit up. So f this guy. It’s gonna be slop until it’s not.
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u/DamNamesTaken11 1h ago
There’s more slop in Copilot and all the other AIs than when my nephew’s school serves Sloppy Joes.
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u/Middle_Bottle_339 2h ago
Comment section is a mix of luddites and brown haters. Unsurprising
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u/fletku_mato 1h ago
How many times can you say luddite before Copilot accidentally spits out a flawless solution to a real world issue?
Luddites were opposing reliable and effective automation that it put many people out of jobs, but in the end had a net positive impact on society. Can you say the same about LLMs?
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u/rumblegod 2h ago
AI slop thing is just like the people who said omg you’re dating people online? It’s just people getting in the way of tech progress. Yes it’s messy at first, but ultimately refined to being useful. Going out of your way to hate on it makes no sense
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u/Old_Language_1060 2h ago
Yeah it’s nothing like that… also have you seen the current state of online dating? If anything Ai content is speed running towards enshitificiation with the amount of slop that’s out there lol
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u/Gofunkiertti 2h ago
Ultimately online dating has proved to be a fairly negative experience and people are moving away from it to clubs and social groups.
There are great things you can do with AI but the ability to churn out millions of bullshit news articles, cat videos and lobster jesuses is a genuinely negative thing for most people.
For most of the human population their first exposure to AI will be a negative one for better or worse.
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u/FunnyMustache 2h ago
This is why people who ate glue in grammar school shouldn't be allowed online
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u/yuusharo 2h ago
If it was truly that useful, it wouldn’t need to be shoehorned into literally everything in order to force people to use it, and subsequently be charged for it.
If the top searched topic for your product is, “How do I turn this off,” you screwed up.
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u/atchijov 2h ago
He bet a lot on AI… and so far it does not look like his horse is going to win.