Yes, this is official documentation from the MS Learn course for the Agentic AI Solution Architect certificate
Microslop SharePhont™
According to Microsoft’s own terms and conditions, AI is supposed to be used for entertainment purposes only. They’re breaking their own terms and conditions here.
I was entertained by this slide. Laughed my ass off in fact
And yet, aren’t they entertaining us with the results?
Did their marketing department read the TOS? because that is not how copilot is advertised.
Did their marketing department read the TOS?
They asked Copilot to summarize it for them.
Clown corporation. If I were employed by Microsoft, I’d probably be embarrassed to admit that in public.
Combigent is a perfectly cromulent word! Veritably cromulent
Not a single one of those words is cromulent, I swear on my aunt’s borschtum.
Did AI make these slides?
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 combigated them.
I’m about to combigate my foot with your ass!
(sorry, just felt right somehow)
A veritable answer.
Product of continvoucly morged slop.
It’s a perfectly cromulent word
who morged that? Why does that happen continvously?
It’s AI generated
Yes, that’s the point
It’s a reference to another Microsoft classic: https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/microsoft-caught-plagiarizing-graphics-with-ai-slop-microsoft-continvoucly-morged-my-diagram-there-for-sure
every time we see AI mix up *U* and *V* we just imagine it not as a machine, but instead as a european renaissance-era writer who accidentally time traveled into the current year and promptly got locked up in a cubicle with a real-time brain scanner wired up that interfaces with chatbot programs seen online
for extra hallucinations simply assume the consumption of one (1) early 1900s fire extinguisher’s worth of carbon tetrafluoride as part of your scribe’s daily fluid intake
Is that why tech bros keep trying to bring back phrenology?
TBH the joke isn’t annotated as such and there are always people stupid or innocent enough.
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What a combigent, inbiltum response!
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 make typos, and “SharePhont” is pretty funny
Unless they used an image generator to make the slides, which would be extra stupid
Always bet on 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
Image generators make typos all the time (if you can call them that).
Primitive image generators don’t “understand” semantics of the patterns they assemble. The obvious example we’re probably all familiar with is “AI hands” with weird poses, excessive fingers, sometimes even extra arms etc.: the AI knows the pattern we understand as a finger, it knows the correlation with those we see as hands and arms, but it doesn’t how what a hand is or why it’s important to have a specific number of those patterns combined in specific ways.
Text is the same: The model knows the graphic patterns of letters, maybe knows the patterns of words the letter-patterns often occur in, but the same randomisation that can produce different enough results to look human can also lead to randomly generating patterns that it fundamentally can not know aren’t actually valid words.
&nsbp;
There are solutions, such as using a more specialised tool like a combined layout generator and text generator with feedback to make the text fit the layout. Using the right tool for the task at hand, paired with supervision by a human that knows its shortcomings and can check whether and where it trips up, might do a better job.
But that human has to have the required know-how, and if you really want to use a single LLM to feed all prompts into, that model should be capable of detecting and delegating the work to those specialised tools (checking with the prompter to confirm that its detection is accurate).
A simple all-purpose-model and general “prompt engineer” without subject-specific experience and training just won’t cut it. The marketing for these tools generally seems terribly intransparent about that problem, and executives generally seem to be oblivious to it (or just indifferent, so long as it helps them cut costs on paper for a few quarters).
(As an aside: it’s the same difficulty text generators occasionally have with facts and citations: They can’t tell when it is important to have very specific combinations of words that map to very specific occurrences. It might have picked up the correlation of the word pattern “Words (Number), Words (something edition). Words.” with human names, year numbers, book titles and publisher respectively, but it can’t know why only specific combinations of author, year, existing book title and publisher are permissible.
It may get them right often enough by picking a likely combination from texts related to the prompt, but unless you double check (or provide in advance) that citations refer to existing works and fit the cited content, you run the risk that it randomly generates bullshit. A student “writing” a paper might not be able to catch it, but a professor that knows the major authors and works of their field is probably gonna spot it.)
Yeah. The newer versions of Dall-E, GPT-Image, and similar cloud apps seem to have subnetworks specifically for text. They’re worlds better than they were just a year or two ago. Like, you can twist them into generating semi-coherent-looking text logos, or make a cartoon character wearing a T-shirt with some text on it.
I’ve seen some complex pipelines with open models, where people train loras specifically to fix the things the base models suck at, like hands, text, etc.
But it’s still a really dumb idea to generate a whole presentation slide or infographic that way, for a wide variety of reasons. If you ever get decent results, just consider yourself lucky. I mean, even the people with the skills to do this well (who are few and far between) would find it way more trouble than just, you know, making slides the normal way.
The incompetence we keep seeing from Microsoft is staggering. I can only assume this is malicious compliance. I imagine some exec said “everyone needs to use AI for everything” and everyone below them said “okay you dumb fuck, here you go”.
I’m dreading the day when our bosses get antsy about AI adoption. I dodged two AI-related projects already. Miss me with that shit. My fuckups are mine to own, fix and learn from, my slop is organic and handmade and my business lingo is authentically rough around the edges.
The frustrating thing is that there actually is a use case I can think of where AI might make my life easier, related to processing and cleaning natural language data, but I don’t have the resources to do that at the scale I need it (and probably not the know-how either).
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?
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.
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
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.
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
Thanks for notifying, I hate to know it’s true (no insult intended)
No that was a long time ago for some of us it’s always been like this you were just insulated by privilege
There are also three “Data Flow” labels (two for the same arrow even) and I’m pretty sure it says Intemal Docs, which makes sense for and AI to mess up too because of similar m and rn look.
Combigent is a perfectly cromulent word.
I don’t see the probulent here
Combigent is a perfectly cromulent word.
I solemnly swear to god, I posted this exact same thing before I saw your post lol
A noble spirit combiggens the smallest man.
So it’s search engine that costs 10 times the energy.
And gives you the wrong information 30% of the time.
Of course it costs more, classic search engines lack the combigency and veritability Copilot provides.
Combigent is too nice a sounding word to lack any real meaning it needs one.
I guess it’ll be nice to have a spare word lying around for when a wordless meaning emerges
Skilled with the use of a comb
Combigent (adj.)
Definition: A word that seems like a real word but actually isn’t
Combigent [kəmˈbʌɪdʒ(ə)nt] {adj} A portmanteau of combine and emergent, describing sth. derived from combination, the ability to combine newly discovered facts or bullshit hallucinated by AI. Examples: The LLM gave a combigent response. The manager’s presentation was quite combigent.
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!
A classy male driver of a combine?
“I published the Intemal Docs because I thought it was a project name. I’m sorry. Would you like some best practices on damage mitigation?”
