Yes, this is official documentation from the MS Learn course for the Agentic AI Solution Architect certificate
Microslop SharePhont™
Anyone remember how much nicer the world felt before we all realized nobody in charge of anything with any real power has any idea what the fuck they’re doing?
We didn’t all realize that at the same point. Some of us have known that for a very long time.
I was twelve watching Jon Stewart. It was quite the epiphany
They know what they are doing. Their goals just don’t align with the rest of humanity.
The mistake we make is in assuming that government choices are born of incompetence… The actions of empire are not incompetent. They are not intended to serve you or the citizens, but to serve material interests, the plunder of land, natural resources, markets, and cheap labor".
-Michael Parenti
RIP to the GOAT
Edit: He talks about it in the lecture starting around 15:35. Though the quote above is from his book “against empire”
Well back then we thought everyone in charge was evil. Back then we had Krutschev, Nixon etc. Always nuclear war looming. And Reagan with this trickle downs, the Bush wars over made-up WMDs etc.
I don’t think there was ever really a positive period. Maybe the 90s which was kinda the high point. Economics were good, America and NATO was the undisputed world power, nobody took global warming seriously yet and the internet was promising a great future.
Then after 2000 we had the dot com crash, 9/11, the resulting wars, Russia becoming an enemy again, the financial world crisis, the rise of the internet as a surveillance tool, global warming, the pandemic, exploding house prices everywhere.
Really pretty much exactly after the change of the century everything turned to shit.
Economics were good if you lived in a western country. Former Soviet Block, Yugoslavia, and global South countries were having a rough go of thing in the 90s
Yeah but the future was bright back then.
Source: I gotta wear shades.
They’re still having a rough go of things, and they were having a rough go of things before that as well, so that’s not really a valid counterpoint.
If they were having a rough go of things in the 90s. Then the 90s weren’t the shining beacon of success it’s claimed to be. That point is very much valid.
Then there as never been in the history of this earth a shining beacon of success because at every waking moment there wasn’t an optimal number of people immune to all disease, death, and suffering, to no downside to nature around them?
The 90s is where the curve peaked for a lot of people. China had finished bringing 70% of their population out of extreme poverty since the world war era, the USA markets and deficit were stable though heading in a bad direction due to Reagan, and Europe was having a big cultural and tourism boom.
Then there as never been in the history of this earth a shining beacon of success
That was kind of my point.
It’s a shit point that argues against 100% valid and factual statements.
No that was a long time ago for some of us it’s always been like this you were just insulated by privilege
Thanks for notifying, I hate to know it’s true (no insult intended)
Nope.
I’m legitimately having a blast right now, 100% affirmed by reality, which I spent the last roughly 15 years of trying to tell people, very labriously, with very detailed reasoning, why what is now obvious was then and basically always has been the case.
Your discomfort is my schadenfreude.
I’m sure that back in the day there were adults in charge of the big companies. I know that where I work management used to listen to tech areas for tech stuff. Now they just trust whatever the Microsoft agent tells them
Did AI make these slides?
It combigated them.
A veritable answer.
It’s a perfectly cromulent word
Product of continvoucly morged slop.
I’m about to combigate my foot with your ass!
(sorry, just felt right somehow)
Almost made me do a spit take, damn you lol!
Doesn’t siund like AI. Sounds more like they fired all the competent, expensive employees and replaced them with AI, than realized AI wasn’t doing so well and this was made by the few incompetent, cheap employees that were left.
It would be really funny if it wasn’t so sad.
It almost makes me think a human worker intentionally made these slides. LLMs don’t really have the creativity to make typos, which is how I can sometimes catch LLM comments on here. Also “SharePhont” is pretty funnyUnless they used an image generator to make the slides, which would be extra stupid
edit: turns out it WAS the extra stupid
Oh it’s definitely extra stupid. Looks like the slide was made whole-cloth by an image generator, not like the text was generated by an LLM and pasted in.
Image generators make typos all the time (if you can call them that).
See also: continvoucly morged
Always bet on stupid
Data Flow
Data Flow
Data Flow
The Data must Flow
(Patric Laine)
REVOLVER OCELOT
It’s the Combigent Directive
Saw this article from Microslop the other day about their MDASH copilot model competing with Mythos for bug finding/fixing.
And here’s the image they went with for the flowchart of what the AI does… Complete with overlapping text and the worst layout I’ve ever seen.
Zero humans proofed this.
about their MDASH copilot model
that’s satire, right?
I’m starting to think they aren’t concerned about making their slides even remotely veritable. This one’s barely even combigent!
“Combigent?” Hm, I never heard that word before I moved to Microsoft.
Microsoft 365 is the only Combigent Certified® cloud platform.
Microsoft 36S, I think you’ll find!
Combigent is too nice a sounding word to lack any real meaning it needs one.
Combigent (adj.)
Definition: A word that seems like a real word but actually isn’t
It also looks completely plausible for a word. I can see why an AI trained to make plausible-looking images generated it.
Now I’m curious to see what other perfectly English-looking words it comes up with
How dqre you say such mean things about my computer boyfriend you’re just an irrational meanie I bet all the words you used here are fake too!
I guess it’ll be nice to have a spare word lying around for when a wordless meaning emerges
A classy male driver of a combine?
Skilled with the use of a comb
Combigent is a perfectly cromulent word! Veritably cromulent
Not a single one of those words is cromulent, I swear on my aunt’s borschtum.
Seems perfectly cromulent to me
I don’t see the probulent here
Data flow
Data flow Data flow
Data flow
The data must flow
It’s flowing. . . it’s flowing!
Those are perfectly cromulent words.
Clown corporation. If I were employed by Microsoft, I’d probably be embarrassed to admit that in public.
You missed “Microsoft 36S” and “Intemal Docs”
Yeah those are very weird errors. Not like AI hallucinations. But more like OCR errors.
I wonder if they imported another PowerPoint and then the AI made images out of it to process it. That would be a very inefficient way to do it.
Maybe the AI has had an OCR pass grafted onto its output processing to make it seem more capable of producing text. AI image generation usually makes weird alien looking text, I could imagine someone deciding to add on an automatic cleanup step to try to make it less obviously AI.
I see, they have been continvoucly morging the docs themselves, as per their developer docs
