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Microsoft gets tired of “Microslop,” bans the word on its Discord, then locks the server after backlash
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"We did it, Patrick! We made a technological breakthrough!"
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AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.
Notably, slack doesn't have this problem. Slack pretty consistently behaved exactly as I expected. You have channels organized by topic. You have private messages that are private. You can have group DMs but don't do that. I guess a problem is some people are kind of stupid and don't see why many permutations of non-discoverable chats are a bad idea. My old CEO, who I would not say is a universally smart man, would always create group DMs and I had to tell him if he wants this chat to be canonical put it in the relevant public channel. "We value transparency" he'd say at meetings, and then bork that up.
I have a couple friends who have only ever used Teams and I don't think they realize just how bad it is.
It's kind of infuriating to me that Microsoft can consistently deliver bad products and not die. If a startup released Teams, no one would use it and they would rightfully fail.