Yikes. @shanselman I know this isn't your group but could you please pass the word?

It's a really bad look for Microsoft in general. I've often pointed people to Microsofts excellent AI Impact Assessment resources and the Responsiable AI Toolbox but stuff like this gives the impression that it's just PR work rather than practices that get consistenlty applied internally. And, if the underlying models that Microsoft Stream is using are shared across groups, then this kind of anti-gay bias may well be showing up in other tools.

@RC

@RC

In a way it's arguably worse that they're servicing the strange needs of homophobic prudes and in so doing ignoring principles they likely understand perfectly well, for commercial purposes.

A new twist on enshittification?

@RC Wow. That is extremely unprofessional for them to do that because you're supposed to be captioning stuff exactly how you want. It should be up to the user to censor it, Microsoft shouldn't get to bloody decide. 😡

Just one giant gaping rectum of a company.

@RC oh fun... I work a lot with nipples myself when I rebuild bike wheels. My other hobby is going outside with my camera to take nice pictures of hooters, titties, boobies and other beautiful birds 🤣

TIL sperm transfer between the cock and the hen occurs by cloacal contact...

I highly suggest you read this toot from work and hopefully trigger as many stupid content filters and alerts as possible 😁

@RC or ...
Microsoft is a company that tailors their products to their customers needs. So I assume most Microsoft customers are offended by the words gay sex.

I assume you also stopped using Microsoft products.

@RC I recently interviewed a sex worker for an article and used the Microsoft Teams transcript during the call. The result had several words edited out, one of them even was "porn" – the topic of the interview.

Worrisome to think about how tech companies bake their weird morals into products, even on content that's not even public.