Microsoft really doesn’t want you to use the name “Microslop”

[osnews@mstdn.social]

Microsoft really doesn’t want you to use the name “Microslop”

Microsoft is pushing "AI" hard in Windows, Office, and in their other products, and it's earned them a cute new nickname: Microslop. It turns out the company really doesn't like it when you use this nickname, however, and its official Copilot Discord server - yes, there is an official one - has gone into a co

https://www.osnews.com/story/144518/microsoft-really-doesnt-want-you-to-use-the-name-microslop/

#Microsoft

[catsalad@infosec.exchange]

@osnews Microsoft: Stop bullying our AI initiative! 😭

[jernej__s@infosec.exchange]

@catsalad @osnews You'll make Slopya sad!

[stevefoerster@social.vivaldi.net]

@osnews Fine, I'll call it Micro$lop. Happy?

[f4grx@chaos.social]

@osnews microslop

[thedaemon@snac.9front.club]

This made my day, thanks.

[m3t00@app.wafrn.net]

best way to stop a bully, punch them in the face. nazis same/same. Grade school rules never change. wafrn ai replacement filter set to 'cocAIne'. thanks gabbo!
no ur the bully, microslop. since 1995. to the bitter end

[tuban_muzuru@beige.party]

@osnews

Official Discord server touting Copilot.

Wow.

Disclaimer: I agree with about 90% of the arguments against AI.

So don't lean on me: I use Claude every day and I have seen far too much ignorant bullshit from people I assess should know better.

If you didn't take linear algebra, the topic of AI awaits your edification.

Now for the rest of you:

The Attention Mechanism is truly moonshot territory — we don't fully understand why it works so well:

Why do induction heads emerge so reliably? What is each attention head geometrically doing in the high-dimensional space?

Is the softmax essential, or is it a placeholder for something more fundamental? Are Transformers discovering something close to Bayesian inference through gradient descent?

[srazkvt@tech.lgbt]

@osnews it would have been REALLY funny if second paragraph started with microslop

[inchulk@mastodon.green]

@osnews I slip “microslop” into company items when feasible (MS are the corporate support for all IT).

[r3vilo@layer8.space]

@osnews Wait? #Microslop isn't a company? How is it called then? I was on their website https://microslop.com/ and everything looks real 😁