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Microsoft CEO Really Wants You to Stop Calling Generative AI 'Slop'
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HerjansEagleFeeder
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I'm really puzzled as to why so many people these days seem to give so much of their attention to these degenerate CEOs. They're often times either straight up sociopaths or super cringy ADHD-infected/autistic edgelords. Their affairs should only concern us insofar as the decisions they make affect us directly. I'm not particularly fond of "CEO gossip" thank you very much.
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Loomy
Thinks Microaggressions are Real
There's this dumbass trend of them making themselves hyper visible for god knows why. Like you said, a lot of them are not likeable personalities.
Fess
Member
How much have you used Copilot and Grok to say this? And for what?
I'm using all AI models, on the art side, and can't relate. For me they all have the same stupid restrictions, Copilot, ChatGPT, Gemini. This is on the paid tier on all. And they also all have a randomized element, which means you have to iterate to get what you want, which essentially means you'll quickly hit a wall and have to pay up. Sneaky…
But with Grok you can at least work around some of the limitations, it's not nearly as strict, Elon just don't give a shit. If you haven't tried it then don't slam it.
Worst case scenario you can trick Grok through video (Imagine) and take a screenshot.
I currently use a combination of Copilot and Grok. Copilot because I have a paid tier for free, not sure if it's through Gamepass or mail, so I can iterate in peace without hitting that wall of having generated too many images. And Grok because it's not as strict as said and because Imagine is all sorts of awesome.
DenchDeckard
Moderated wildly
They've renamed office to copilot?
Wtf.
Wtf.
Loomy
Thinks Microaggressions are Real
Between Copilot, ChatGPT, and Gemini, I'm finding Gemini to be the least pain in the ass to use. Gemini is also the only one that consistently identifies images correctly with simple "identify this image" prompts without me having to guide it to the right answer.
I haven't played around with Grok the same way or as much you have. I'm curious to see what it can do now.
But for me, definitely Gemini over ChatGPT and Copilot
They renamed it from Office 365 to Microsoft 365 like 10 years ago. Now they're just adding "Copilot" to the name.
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Dr Bass
Gold Member
Funny reaction ... don't know if its exactly as reported but it comes across as pretty childish.
Here is the issue ... they are really trying to push the tools as "cognitive enhancing" (as Nadella wants to sell it), but writing is thinking. Coding is thinking. So if you outsource in those areas it's actually cognitive decline because you don't have to think to make anything or engage your brain. And it typically is of pretty low quality in my experience (in the software world) so yeah .. AI slop is an exact term.
Here is the issue ... they are really trying to push the tools as "cognitive enhancing" (as Nadella wants to sell it), but writing is thinking. Coding is thinking. So if you outsource in those areas it's actually cognitive decline because you don't have to think to make anything or engage your brain. And it typically is of pretty low quality in my experience (in the software world) so yeah .. AI slop is an exact term.
Cyberpunkd
Member
That's part of it, but also - he wants to create a market for something he invested billions in. If he can change the perception of AI (he won't) then AI adoption will go up and Microsoft's investment will get validated.
It's nothing else than snake oil salesman trying to convince you his concoction cures cancer.
Cyberpunkd
Member
Not to mention the current AI (LLMs) is not thinking, it's information gathering and synthesis + hallucinations. Every company on earth tried desperately to make us believe AI is truly revolutionary but now the hype is going down they are desperately trying to pivot, since they know people are waking up that's it's "nice to have", not "mission critical".
Radical_3d
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KungFucius
King Snowflake
This guy is CEO slop. How many people has he fired and what was his 2025 bonus? Fuck him. He is a piece of shit. We used to bitch about MS being evil back in the 90s, now it is practically infinitely worse and the worst of it all has come under his lead.
Panajev2001a
GAF's Pleasant Genius
To be fair it is much much much much shittier than before as they did change its purpose and functionality. So… great job
…Panajev2001a
GAF's Pleasant Genius
This is old news but yes… it also solved the "why do we have an Office app and separate Word and Excel apps?" question in a very shitty way
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Laptop1991
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Who listens to Satya Nadella, Windows 10 will be the last windows!, right, and he is responsible for Windows 11!, with all its phone home spyware i had to mostly get rid of or disable, i don't believe a word he says.
Froggo
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Damn it's already self awareCopilot is an AI and may make mistakes. Your conversations are personalized. Opt out.
Today
what is generative AI slop
Here's the short, clear version — and then we can dig deeper if you want.
"Generative AI slop" (often just AI slop) is a pejorative term for low‑quality, mass‑produced content created with generative AI tools. It's used when the output feels:
What "generative AI slop" means
Think of it as the spam of the AI era — endless, mediocre content created because it's easy and profitable to churn out.
- low‑effort
- inaccurate or nonsensical
- cheaply made at scale
- lacking creativity or meaning
- flooding social media, search results, or marketplaces
Sources describe it as:
- "digital content made with generative AI… perceived to show a lack of effort, quality or deeper meaning"
- "low-quality videos, images, music, and articles… taking over social media and streaming platforms"
- "machine-made junk content… cheap, endless and hard to escape"
The word "slop" implies unappetizing leftovers — something shoveled out quickly with no care. The term caught on because:
Why people call it "slop"
Merriam‑Webster even named "slop" the 2025 Word of the Year.
- AI tools can produce huge volumes of content instantly
- Platforms reward quantity over quality
- It's often hard to tell what's real
- It can drown out human-made work
Examples of AI slop
- Weird, uncanny AI images (e.g., "Shrimp Jesus") that go viral
- Fake news clips or disaster photos that look real at a glance
- Spammy YouTube videos made entirely by AI to farm ad revenue
- Bland AI-written articles stuffed with keywords
AI slop raises concerns about:
Why it matters
If you want, I can also explain why Microsoft's CEO is pushing back on the term, since you have that article open — or we can explore how to spot AI slop, why it spreads, or whether the criticism is fair.
- misinformation
- erosion of trust in online content
- overwhelming human creators
- degrading search and social feeds
Sigh!
Felessan
Member
Funny how he argued against calling AI slop a slop when in reality 99% of generative AI are slop - low efforts inconsistent trash from some newbie wannabies.
It's like calling indie trash a trash. Some will call all indies trash and some get offended if any indies are called trash, but reality is that 99% of indies are trash and 1% are legitimate games.
Nadella should really focus on quality stuff, but it seems he have nothing to brag about.
It's like calling indie trash a trash. Some will call all indies trash and some get offended if any indies are called trash, but reality is that 99% of indies are trash and 1% are legitimate games.
Nadella should really focus on quality stuff, but it seems he have nothing to brag about.
BlackTron
Member
Even with all the mistakes AI makes.
StereoVsn
Gold Member
I work with CoPilot daily. I guess if you want to work with sexy images Grok is needed, lol, but that is not something I care about.
For professional (and personal) work I find the other models significantly better.
Fess
Member
If you're doing artsy stuff then Grok Imagine is real fun. Can give life to your drawings in spectacular ways.
You only get 6 seconds of video but you can command it through the prompt and get fairly detailed results. If you want to play around with stuff like that, try taking a screenshot of the last frame in a 6s Imagine video, then use that frame as the start image of the next video for design consistency. Then build it all up in iMovie or similar software for a longer video.
And if you want to change designs, iterate with still images first, then go for an Imagine video when you're satisfied. I use Copilot for the image part when I want better control of scenes. Then I eventually go over to Grok to not be restricted as much or to turn it into a video.
winjer
Gold Member
Very true. He just hit the Streisand effect.
Not people are more likely to call it AI Slop and his company Microslop.
Magic Carpet
Gold Member
Name went from a professional, clear and known, "Office".
to
BoatyMcBoatface levels of comical overnight.
Doesn't take much to crash a company nowadays. Just one bad ad or tweet and billions of dollars start circling the drain.
to
BoatyMcBoatface levels of comical overnight.
Doesn't take much to crash a company nowadays. Just one bad ad or tweet and billions of dollars start circling the drain.
phant0m
Member
It's kind of amazing how much MSFT has fucked up in the last 15 years, way before AI anything
They completely missed the boat on mobile. Could've been the major platform holder not named Apple but let Google run away with it.
They completely torpedo'd the Xbox brand. Don Mattress' fuckup was so immense. They had all the momentum coming in to 8th gen. All of their studios have been mismanaged since.
They finally recovered from Windows 8/8.1 and had 10 in a good place only to pile massive amounts of shit people didn't want in W11.
On the other hand, I guess it doesn't matter that much - they've made a truckload on M365, and their stock price is higher than both Apple and Google.
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Fess
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Loomy
Here's some quick fun with Grok Imagine. Everything is built from that one screenshot at the start. Character design consistency is the most difficult part. I wish you could lock the design somehow, fish out some digits from one clip to then put into the next one. As it is you have to edit isolated 6 seconds clips into something coherent. 
ultrazilla
Gold Member
Microsoft CEO Really Wants You to Stop Calling Generative AI 'Slop'
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Apparently, "slop" was Merriam-Webster's word of the year – as determined by the organisation's "human editors", it specified in a blog post prior to Christmas.
While we feel the word has lost a lot of meaning due to its undeniable overuse throughout 2025, said fleshy beings defined it as "digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence". Seems relatively accurate to us.
Satya Nadella, whose Microsoft company has poured tens of billions of dollars into the technology, doesn't like the insult, though.
He wrote in an SN Scratchpad post ahead of the New Year:
We've read Nadella's post through several times now, and we're honestly struggling to extract much meaning from the corpobabble it's undeniably stuffed full of. We can't help but wonder whether he employed Copilot to help author it.
But we think he sums it all up with this sentence: "We now have a clearer sense of where the tech is headed, but also the harder and more important question of how to shape its impact on the world."
In other words, the tech is here but no one's really figured out how to best use it yet. Or, in Microsoft's case, how to best sell it.
Like it or loathe it, AI is going to dominate discussion in the games industry this year.
We've already seen studios like Larian come out and admit they're exploring the possibilities of the technology, and they won't be alone. Meanwhile, teams like Sandfall Interactive have said they'll never use it again, after attracting some criticism for including some generated art assets in undisputed Game of the Year winner Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.
We can't see any immediate resolution to the issues: with generative AI largely trained upon the individual endeavour of humans, questions of ethics will continue to be raised.
And moreover, the technology's impact on the environment – and, increasingly, economy – will remain big talking points.
For Nadella and Microsoft, who's seemingly bet everything on generative AI, this year may yet prove a make or break moment.
Fucker used chatgp to formulate his slop argument.
Loomy
Thinks Microaggressions are Real
Cannot see the file, unfortunately
nowhat
Member
Oh, they had their attempts. First with Windows Mobile (which, granted, was absolutely terrible, but it was more in the PDA era) and then with Windows Phone. And that could actually have had some promise. But they absolutely self-sabotaged themselves with it. In a way, it was kinda impressive. Any corporation can shoot themselves in the foot, many often do. But a point-blank grenade shot to take out the entire leg, not many have done that.
Fess
Member
Weird, it's ping pong rolling here, is it Imgur misbehaving or can you see it through this link?Cannot see the file, unfortunately
Loomy
Thinks Microaggressions are Real
This one works. Made up of 6 second clips? That's pretty cool.
Fess
Member
Yeah 6s is unfortunately the limit on Grok Imagine. I did it as explained earlier, took screenshots of the a late frame to feed into another video as the starter frame. That keeps the design intact. Then I put it all together with iMovie. Just a quick example.
There is still a change in helmet design at one point, took an iteration from a different starter clip there. You need to be super careful with things like that. Plus, all of a sudden you may see four arms or whatever lol so study the clips carefully if you want to make something that looks professional.
Personally I love playing around with AI. I use it to give life to my art, seeing a pencil or Procreate drawing come to life is awesome.
Zacfoldor
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Demigod Mac
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Waiting for Microsoft's CEO to change his legal name to Copilot Copilot.
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Plague Doctor
Member
I am torn.
On the one hand, AI is slop
On the other hand in the last 10 years, a lot of human made things have been complete shit.
If you ask me to choose between ai slop and concord for example, I am going to have a rough time.
On the one hand, AI is slop
On the other hand in the last 10 years, a lot of human made things have been complete shit.
If you ask me to choose between ai slop and concord for example, I am going to have a rough time.
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analog_future
Resident Crybaby
Hopefully these companies will start to realize "wait... consumers don't give a shit about our new multi-trillion dollar push?"
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Codes 208
Member
I'm still pissed that the surface line went the copilot direction
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alphachino
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mdkirby
Gold Member
A lot of it is slop. Just as the overwhelming majority of photos are (a huge percent are just pictures of people's cats). But a small percent isn't, took time, talent, intent and is great. Give a highly creative person the tools, the knowhow, and some time, and they can make incredible things with gen ai, far faster than they ever could otherwise (and over a far broader creative skill set than they would likely be able to do otherwise). A high % of the talented artists at AAA studios, even if senior management and money men have them making dross a lot of the time, would be perfect examples of people who COULD make amazing things with these tools.
Felessan
Member
They had no resources (management ability) to do both corporate and consumer business and consumer business proved to require a lot of efforts to make into successful venture.
MS clearly went corporate route (Windows/Office, Server, corp soft, Azure etc) as more stable and profitable and used consumers business as stop-gap measures
And it proved to be working for them
From my point of view many of xbox woes are due to fact that higher-ups at MS have little time to seriously deal with Xbox division (it was given money but nobody review results in-depth and asked serious questions for a long time), they have more important priorities to deal with, and left unsupervized bound to go astray at some point.
LordCBH
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kiphalfton
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No makeup
Vs
1 pound of makeup, choosing best pic out of 500 pics taken, and AI enhancement
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