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[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

"Let's go another way where AI helps us to do things, to learn things, to create things, but in ways that we enhance and advance with our distinct perspectives and unique experiences!"

AI can't do that. And, even if it could be made to look like it is, no one you're paying is going to bother.

Fucking idiots.

"I can't be an idiot, look at all the money I have. "

Stupid is as stupid does. Idiot.

[–] heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah, they're kind of slow. They're throwing money at this, and they're just realizing it?!?!?! Typical. The only ones with common sense is the common man.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I mean, it's somewhat possible, depending on context. However even if it helps someone with vision realize their goals 10 percent faster, it helps the person with zero vision pump out slop 100x faster than someone with good content to make.

[–] heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

One of the hilarious consequences of Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, Gemini, and other content-theft platforms is that they're trained entirely stolen human-made content. AI data sets post 2023 are doomed to rely on cannibalizing AI-generated content, creating an incestuous data "doom loop" Roslansky spoke of here

Haha, I didn't know about "doom loops." Ah, that's why they burning land, water, etc., more assets for the Balance Sheet. If AI flops, they'll just flip to cryptocurrency and leave us out of the markets entirely.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Now just imagine putting that shit into the code for your flagship operating system without any kind of human oversight.

[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Lmao my immediate thought was AI when a .NET update broke the Cambria font recently

[–] lemmysmash@piefed.social 6 points 1 day ago
[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 57 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Then don't invent the fucking torment nexus!

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 20 points 2 days ago

I keep shoving puppies into the shredder but all i get are shredded puppies!!

[–] Aeder@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

The problem is that they see people hating the torment nexus and then they assume it must be because they didn't market it correctly.

Like "oh I guess they don't like it because they can't share it, let's add a suffering multiplexer so they can enjoy it with friends and family^*^

~*⠀for⠀a⠀small**⠀fee~

~**⠀might⠀not⠀be⠀small~

[–] Alfredolin@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

The phrase "no shit" comes to mind.

[–] kvasir476@lemmy.world 268 points 3 days ago (5 children)

You don't get to complain about the slop when you built the slop factory.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 120 points 3 days ago

He's probably only complaining because it's affecting him personally. If it was only destroying everyone else's lives he would be happy to be an executioner. After all, he's just following orders.

[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 82 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

...And mandated their employees use it.

Now he's crying they did what they were told

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

aparently these tech ceo shields thier own children from the brainrot/slop, they know its wrong its doing harm by placing them in expensive private schools away from the "brainrot"

[–] riskable@programming.dev 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Remember, though: Microsoft invented the slop factory when they created Microsoft Office.

Sending useless documents back and forth via Outlook predates AI by decades.

I thought they admitted defeat, embracing the uselessness and futility of nearly all office work when they released SharePoint, but I guess they're still just getting started 🤷

[–] Archer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ahh the good old days when no mid size corp bothered to hire an onprem Sharepoint dev so the install just went unused

[–] riskable@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

Or worse, used!

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[–] smeg@feddit.uk 142 points 3 days ago (2 children)
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[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 44 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] msage@programming.dev 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

[https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-satya-nadella-ai-slop](Didn't Nadella beg people not to call it slop?)

[–] nocturne@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 day ago

Put your descriptor in the brackets then url in the parentheses.

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 days ago

Yes, and that is mentioned very early in the article in the OP…

[–] popekingjoe@lemmy.world 108 points 3 days ago (2 children)
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[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 85 points 3 days ago

I’d give him the benefit of the doubt, because surely not everyone at microslop wants copilot everywhere, but he heads the department that put copilot into excel, so all my sympathies evaporated.

[–] brax@sh.itjust.works 31 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They don't like when people use the AI trash they baked in their apps? Maybe they should get rid of it 🤔

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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

mouthwashing_take_responsibility.gif

[–] kshade@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh, he's the one running Linkedin, now it makes sense why that site, of all places, has anti-AI features now. I hope the shareholders will have mercy with his soul.

[–] paraplu@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago

LinkedIn also has AI features. They ruined the job search a few weeks ago. It's now natural language, missing a bunch of filters, and doesn't even return the full text of a job post without additional clicks.

It also takes forever to load a post because it's trying to decide whether you're a match or not. It's not very good at figuring that out. It keeps saying I'm a great match for jobs that require languages I don't speak, or for jobs that require a master's.

I hope this is a sign they'll revert it, but I'm doubtful. LinkedIn was the least bad job search I've found.

[–] sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world 35 points 3 days ago (17 children)

Microsoft (and maybe all the AI companies) made at least few mistakes in the marketing of this technology. AI isn't a replacement for human accountability. It still requires oversight and expertise. It is great for a first draft. It is terrible for a complete work product. Agents (with the right loops to verify accuracy) are reasonably complex - and most companies don't have the people development infrastructure to train their teams with the right skills to build them. Honestly, AI is shining a light on how terribly businesses have been run over the last 30 years, and how lazy business leaders are.

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 50 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It is terrible for a first draft if you're aiming for something that reads like a human being's actual thoughts. Don't let an LLM think for you and create the first draft of "your" thoughts. At most, if you absolutely must, use it as a spell checker. But write your words yourself.

No one wants to know what ChatGPT thinks. We might want to know what you think... But only if it's actually you doing the thinking.

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[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 31 points 3 days ago (18 children)

It is great for a first draft

Only if the aim is towards mediocrity.

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[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I got into this business inspired by the innovations Microsoft was exploring a decade ago. Microsoft led cloud convenience and digital platform synergy

ew

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 7 points 2 days ago

Sounds like the sort of guy who's entire "job" is just saying things.

most scenarios

That's a strange way to spell "all"

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I have a niece working for the gov on AI… 6 months ago she was all in on it, excited about the potential… yesterday she told me she is looking for a placement in a different area because she sees zero future in these projects

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