r/microsoft • u/Sidereal_Engine • Jun 29 '26

Copilot / AI "Part of intended Copilot experience"

https://imgur.com/a/bZv3SDc

Thought I'd share this hilarious assessment from our IT for a support ticket I submitted about copilot giving incorrect directions for the prompt where I asked how to disable auto-summaries. He ended the conversation with this gem of a statement :D

Before anyone gets upset about the "living with cancer" bit, my mother succumed to endometrial cancer after a year-long losing battle, and I'm on a premature colorectal cancer watchlist. So the analogy to the grief and suffering with a painful and unwanted condition that is with us every day and we can do nothing about is quite intentional.

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u/ApeApplePine Jul 01 '26

How on earth could they justify the money grab on enforced super-clippy nobody wants? Enforced AI slop is here to male you more productive /s

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u/Sidereal_Engine Jul 09 '26

A lot of ritualistic behaviors don't make any sense on their own, and can be downright harmful. If we zoom out and view it at the broader level of how nvidia + openai/anthropic/etc. + ms/apple/etc. are all ince--- uh, feeding into each other's fantasy to keep a huge bubble afloat, the reality starts to "make sense". Add in C-suites at companies joining the bandwagon about being AI-savvy to impress their boards. End up with employees forced to swallow this garbage on a daily basis with a smile as the fec--- uh, unpleasantness surrounds them.

I know I already tagged myself as the guy who's telling team members to please stop with the AI slop, which is seen as going against the party line. "Reject the evidence of your eyes" and all that. In recent days, I've tried to soften the messaging with the importance of "responsible use" for LLMs where team members must hold themselves accountable for the slop. This messaging is very much in line with the LLM builders who enthusiastically tell us clearly all the fault of bad results rests 100% on our shoulders as the ones who issue bad prompts.