Microsoft gets tired of “Microslop,” bans the word on its Discord, then locks the server after backlash

Microsoft blocks the word Microslop on its Copilot Discord, bans users, and locks channels after backlash, showing tensions around its AI push

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@davidgerard funniest thing I've read all day, thank you
@mwl @davidgerard Yeah! for me it's just the morning!! :D 🤞
@davidgerard oh no now where will i discuss my favorite microslop app, copilot, with all of the other sloppers

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LOL

"At its present state, Copilot has added some capabilities that are genuinely useful in day-to-day workflows. Features like connectors can pull contextual data from services such as Google Contacts, Gmail, and Outlook to retrieve phone numbers or email addresses directly inside Copilot, something competing tools like Gemini have not yet cracked, as we found in our detailed testing."

I sure as Microslop wouldn't trust it with that access.

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Google does have this feature in their predictive text algorithm, as an optional feature in GBoard. Yet more proof that LLMs are garbage, because this actually useful feature doesn't require them at all.

@resuna @davidgerard

Google doesn't need to implement that shit in Gemini because it's already part of their app suite that (for now) works.

@davidgerard The richest, most powerful men who run society are profoundly insecure. Imagine having more money than God and still being a little piss baby who can't cope with criticism.
@davidgerard Wouldn't go work for Microslop if they paid me

@davidgerard why the hell do they even have a discord? A tacit admission that Teams is a failure.

And while we're add it, bring back msn messenger!

@davidgerard Seriously, over micro slop? What a bunch of manchild's.
@davidgerard And so many people would never have cause to mention or even think about microslop if they didn't keep forcing copilot into our processes!
@davidgerard I guess the MS discord mods have never heard of the Scunthorpe problem or the Streisand effect… 🤪

@itgrrl @davidgerard

Not the same thing but a young lady named Kendra Sunderland once posted a video that led to a bunch of travel sites suddenly being marked as porn.

One of the younger men on our team was the one who figured that out. 😄

@eestileib @davidgerard um… nope, I don’t seem to be able to parse that in a way that would trip a “pr0n word” filter… 🤔 (I think I’m probably OK with that tbh)

@itgrrl @davidgerard

You won't learn anything new about the world by investigating, that's for sure.

@davidgerard shhh, don't tell anybody else

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Clumsy? Ham-fisted? #Microslop!

"Of course, the internet rarely leaves things there. Shortly after Windows Latest posted about Copilot Discord server blocking Microslop on X, users began experimenting in the server with variations such as “Microsl0p” using a zero instead of the letter “o.”"

Er, #Microsl0p

@krupo brb changing my name to PolsOrcim

@krupo @davidgerard

1337$p3@/< never goes out of fashion baby

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Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha ha…

@davidgerard Branding nightmare, that is. There is no winning move left for Microslop.
@davidgerard Let me guess, they moved to a MS Teams group?
@davidgerard Oh the truth, it hurts so bad! 😂
@davidgerard "STOP IT! STOP CALLING IT SLOP!"
@davidgerard Well, we just call them "Macroslop" now… because it's not "a little bit" sloppy, it's "a lot"!
@davidgerard love how those motherfuckers at #Microslop squirm 🤩
@davidgerard like that really ever worked out :)

@davidgerard

Well sure...that'll fix it.

🙂

#MicroSlop
#AISlop

@davidgerard I have the microslop extension installed, so it appears microslop has blocked microslop

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Discord?

There are still people on Discord?

@davidgerard Thankfully, the Wikipedia redirect is still intact.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microslop

Microsoft - Wikipedia

@davidgerard

I went to the Microsoft website to see if I could send them a message with the word #MicroSlop in it a few times.

It turns out you need a MS account just to contact them.

I don't know what you are supposed to do if you have issues with your account.

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They've gone big, guess it's now macroslop.

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Fascistic snowflakes in action.

@davidgerard not sure what is funnier, the story itself or the fact microslop uses discord.
@davidgerard the best jokes write themselves
@davidgerard why is there an official copilot discord server
@irina gotta reach the kids
@davidgerard i'm sure blocking "microslop" will make people stop calling them microslop instead of finding ways around the automod and hating on this god awful company even more 
@davidgerard Microslop, eh, I mean microsoft really has become thin-skinned. #microslop
@davidgerard sing Microslop, microslop, micro micro microslop sing
@davidgerard I'm amused by the fact that Microsoft uses Discord rather than their own product (Teams).
@ephemeromorph I remember hearing that Team was so bad that they just use Zoom for meetings lmfao

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Touched the corporation's nerve there 👍

@davidgerard So even the botlickers and sloppers call it Microslop now?