Make Microsoft’s CEO cry by putting in Chrome’s ‘Microslop’ extension
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In abstract:
- PCWorld experiences on a Chrome extension known as “Microsoft to Microslop” that renames Microsoft references in browsers as a protest towards the corporate’s aggressive AI integration.
- The extension displays widespread person frustration with Microsoft’s Copilot AI, which faces extraordinarily low adoption charges and rising privateness considerations amongst Home windows customers.
- Many customers actively search methods to take away AI options from Home windows, highlighting vital backlash towards Microsoft’s AI technique regardless of CEO dismissals of complaints.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says we shouldn’t consider LLM output as “slop.” You understand, AI-generated content material, the factor that’s making the web worse in each measurable approach, and inflicting shopper electronics costs to skyrocket? So it could be an actual disgrace in case you put in an extension in your browser that modified “Microsoft” to “Microslop” all around the net.
Sure, putting in “Microsoft to Microslop” could be a naughty and fully cynical response. Particularly in case you, say, used Edge’s Chromium base to put in it in Microsoft’s personal default net browser, Edge. That will simply be twisting the AI-generated knife, wouldn’t it?
“Screw you Satya Nadella. Find out about Barbara Streisand,” writes the developer on the Chrome Internet Retailer, who freely admits they’re “managing my ranges of spite.” I can relate. They add that the extension solely visually manipulates the web page, so it received’t break hyperlinks, or accumulate or retailer any person knowledge.
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If Nadella and/or Microsoft are feeling notably sensitive about being known as sloppy or any spinoff thereof, they’ve solely themselves in charge. Nadella himself claimed that 30 p.c of the software program firm’s code is now AI-generated. That’s amidst an enormous person pushback, because the don’t-call-it-a-forced-migration from Home windows 10 to 11 has angered each common shoppers and companies, the fixed insertion of Copilot “AI” into each a part of Microsoft’s enterprise causes complications and privateness considerations, and software program subscription costs rise as Microsoft tries to drive individuals to purchase Copilot providers.
All of the whereas…plainly nearly nobody is definitely utilizing Copilot. Native “AI” purposes utilizing all of the NPUs in new Home windows laptops are nonetheless extraordinarily restricted, and Dell has discovered that even individuals who wish to use “AI” will simply open up a browser and go to ChatGPT.
So yeah, it’s comprehensible why persons are calling the corporate Microslop after its CEO blared out a tone-deaf declaration. I first heard it on the CES present ground, whereas I used to be looking for a single new product that didn’t have “AI” options jammed into it for no discernible cause. Home windows Newest noticed the browser extension, however right here’s a enjoyable bonus: a information that can take away all Copilot options from Home windows itself, amongst others.
