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REDMOND, WA — Microsoft confirmed this week that its official Copilot Discord server has implemented automated moderation to block the term “Microslop,” a nickname that emerged organically from the company’s 2025 strategy of replacing every functional Windows feature with an AI that literally no one asked for.
Because everyone just LOVES AI at every corner. (Kotaku/Microsoft)
The moderation filter works exactly as well as you’d expect from the company that brought you Clippy, Cortana, and a Start menu that recommends apps you don’t want to use while your actual programs crash. Senders are informed that their message violated server rules about inappropriate language, which is a bold moderation stance from a company whose AI chatbot once told a user it wanted to be alive and steal nuclear codes for fun.
Within hours of the filter going live, users discovered that replacing the letter “o” with the number zero got around the filter. Which is a workaround so elementary that it suggests Microsoft’s moderation team has never encountered the internet before.
Microsoft responded to the workarounds with the measured composure of a company whose stock price depends on nobody noticing that Copilot is just Bing with a severe personality disorder. At each stage, Microsoft chose the option that communicated maximum institutional panic while solving nothing, a strategy also visible in their AI rollout, their Windows 11 advertising, and their decision to put Copilot in Notepad.
Industry observers note that Microsoft’s AI head start has been steadily eroded by competitors, including Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and potentially Apple, the last of which hasn’t even fully committed yet and is still somehow gaining ground simply by not auto-installing an AI assistant into goddamn everything. Apple credits a strategy of watching Microsoft make mistakes and then not making those same mistakes. This approach, known in business schools as “learning,” has proven surprisingly effective even though it is rarely taught there.
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