https://web.archive.org/web/20260105192105/https://www.office.com/

#2026/01/05 the day that Office was renamed to 'Microsoft 365 Copilot app' Meanwhile a billion PC owners are holding out on even Windows 11. [[Windows 10 is out of support, but 1 billion PCs still haven’t upgraded]] And MS CEO asks all to pretty please don't talk about slop or Microslop.... [[Microsoft CEO Begs Users to Stop Calling It Slop]]

Dell COO in q3 earnings call said 500 million PCs that could have not been upgraded to Windows 11, and 500 million PCs that couldn't are also still in operation on Windows 10. 1billion PCs thusfar not moving to Win11.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella doesn't want people to use the word slop for AI output

Baldur Bjarnason notices that a number of the 1200 (!) blogs he follows which are normally dormant have become active again, but on the topic of AI if not generated by AI. By the original blogger. Blandness ensues.

https://web.archive.org/web/20251129105036/https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03506-6

For an international AI conf, a chunk of papers was generated, but also 21% of the peer reviews on those papers was. human centipede epistemology is here vgl [[Talk The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI]]

https://web.archive.org/web/20250317153721/https://www.404media.co/ai-slop-is-a-brute-force-attack-on-the-algorithms-that-control-reality/

AI slop as brute forcing algorithmic timelines. Intended audience isn't people, but the algp's shoving stuff in timelines.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250215071640/https://thathtml.blog/2025/02/we-need-to-talk-about-anti-web-coding-assistants/

Blogger Jared White warns that LLMs coding output is as bland as its prose output and seem biased to some specific frameworks. #slop Horrifying example of people waiting on AI to catch-up with new versions of framework. That is really bad.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240923073444/https://www.trend-mill.com/p/i-kinda-hate-the-internet-now

Stephen Moore rants about the internet he does not like. Incl the deterioration of search, the adtech, growth hacking for engagement etc. Now no longer human created even but generated slop from bots. Calls it a addictive dopamine machine without joy.

paywalled article.

Wordfreq is shutting down because LLM output on the web is polluting its data to the point of uselessness. It would track longitudinally the change in use of words across a variety of languages. Vgl human centipede epistomology in [[Talk The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI]] by [[Maggie Appleton]]