Asking the internet to stop doing anything almost always backfires. A note to corporations everywhere: Asking politely for ...

Trouble began when users discovered that Discord messages containing the word "Microslop," a mocking nickname for the company's AI-heavy direction, were automatically blocked. Those attempting to ...

Microsoft briefly blocked the term “Microslop” in its official Copilot Discord, triggering backlash, workarounds, and a temporary server lockdown.

In an effort to boost its AI investments, Microsoft has integrated AI tools into just about every part of the company’s operation, whether anyone wants it or not (and they mostly don’t). The result of ...

Microsoft later told media outlets that the team added "temporary filters for select terms" after a spike in spam and "walls of text" that used the insult to disrupt conversations. According to the ...

Microsoft has banned 'Microslop' on its Copilot Discord, then locked the server after users bypassed the filter, amplifying ...

The war was fought, the war was lost.

After people just used workarounds like typing out 'm1cr0sl0p,' admins seemingly dropped the ban. But that only accelerated ...