Microsoft blocks the word Microslop on its Copilot Discord, bans users, and locks channels after backlash, showing tensions around its AI push
  • fritobugger2017@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    2 hours ago

    Go to microsoft dot com. Click their chat help bot. Ask “What is microslop?” get told, sorry, I cannot help you with that and turns itself off.

    • Ranulph@thelemmy.clubEnglish
      7·
      2 hours ago

      I just did that…and it said…‘‘it would seem you are referring to Microsoft’’ So all of your hard work was not in vain. It is now self aware

  • Rose@slrpnk.netEnglish
    25·
    13 hours ago

    That’s a bit weird. They didn’t get this worked up about being called “Micro$oft” or something. This is probably hitting the nerve in a completely different way!

    • BodilessGaze@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      10·
      8 hours ago

      Microsoft has over 200k employees, and the people (person?) managing the discord are probably at the bottom of the totem pole. I doubt they put more than 5 seconds of thought into this.

  • Dentzy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    47·
    14 hours ago

    I loved the:

    Of course, the internet rarely leaves things there.

    There are many things wrong about the current Internet, but the pettiness against any affront (real or perceived) won’t ever die, and I think that’s good.

    • Billegh@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      3 hours ago

      They do, but have you ever seen a party that everyone knows about but no one shows up to? That’s Microsoft’s non-paid chat service.

    • kautau@lemmy.worldEnglish
      43·
      14 hours ago

      “Hello I’m [generic person 2387362] and I’m the community manager for [generic corporation/tool/product 1892873]! I just started a few weeks ago and I’m so excited to announce that in the interest of [generic engagement and advertising], we’d started a discord server! We [positive transitive verb] our community, and want to bring them together so they can share some of the [productivity success stories] they’ve had or ask the community for support! Remember, while this is an official [generic corporation] channel, by joining this community you agree to [27 pages of legal terms about them owning your messages and data farming you].”

    • BigDiction@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      12 hours ago

      It’s normal to just meet people where they are at on all the various platforms. As long as you can pipe everything back to customer data platform increasing scale through multiple social platforms has almost no downside and pretty minimal cost.

    • BryyM@lemmy.worldEnglish
      391·
      17 hours ago

      Thank you for pointing out this clearly superior word, you expanded my vocabulary!

  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    124·
    15 hours ago

    Reminds me of the time when Disney allegedly* sent a memo to workers at Disney Land and Disney World telling them that, if they didn’t stop complaining about the abysmal working conditions by calling both parks Mousewitz, they’d be fired.

    Within the hour, workers started calling it Duchau in stead.

    *read: probably

    • lornosaj@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      6 hours ago

      I get the Mousewitz part but what’s the reference to Dachau about? Duchau read like Duckau as in Donald Duck?

      • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        14 minutes ago

        It might be that there is pun at all about them calling it Dachau and that was the point. Oh we can’t use this cheeky nickname anymore? Fine, we’ll just refer to it as Dachau. Ban that.

      • luciferofastora@feddit.orgEnglish
        5·
        2 hours ago

        Remember how Americans would pronounce the ch. They already basically say Dackau, so Duckau isn’t a far stretch.

  • village604@adultswim.fanEnglish
    40·
    3 hours ago

    Idk Microsoft, maybe fix your AI so it doesn’t recommend Microsoft products that are either depreciated deprecated or don’t exist.

    It’s pretty embarrassing for you.

  • rogsson@piefed.socialEnglish
    71·
    17 hours ago

    Why would Microslop do this? Aren’t they proud of the slop they are filling everything with? Or is this just a simple insecurity thing? Want us to call you Macroslop instead?