Only Scout believed in himself.
this post was submitted on 03 Jun 2026
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I will never EVER give an AI agency over any of my personal accounts.
You are not the target audience.
Oh we're the target, just not the customer.
Did they try making it good?
That's the beauty of it (from their viewpoint), they don't have to make it good, just unavoidable.
yes, good at self-destructing.
Ah yes, Cortana and Copilot both suck, but surely third time's the charm. And when Scout is, inevitably, unpopular as well? We'll see what they call number four.
You forgot clippy, but everyone forgets about clippy unless it's in this exact context. Or it's Norfolk wizard game.
You forgot they called it Bing in the middle too
Is there any fundamental diffidence between Copilot and Scout, or is it just a straight up rebranding?
Cortana was actually really good on Windows Phone but they dumbed it down and added all sort of crap to it by the time it was integrated onto the desktop. They could've doubled down on whatads it good but nope.
Create a captive audience through monopoly or near monopoly on a given market, then charge them more for a worse version of the product, reducing costs and maximizing profits, it's always been the goal with corporate capitalism, look at the whole Copilot and GitHub situation right now.
microslop can fuck off.
I think you mean to say: "microslop can slop off"
Microfuck can slop off.
do you really wanna be admitting that addiction is your goal?
A $6 Million Jury Verdict Ruled Social Media Is Addictive.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/anishasircar/2026/03/30/a-6-million-jury-verdict-ruled-social-media-is-addictive-now-what/
That kind of fine is a pittance.
true. but this one wasn't a class action, either.. just one plaintiff.
adding new "features"
look inside
enshittification
looks inside" its all AI, nothing but AI"
Well, Microsoft, if you want that, put more cocaine in it.
Congratz you are the first person to successfully sell AI to me.
At least they're honest (internally) about their intentions. Obviously this is also the goal of the other big AI foundries; it either already is or it will be in the future.
Luckily Microsoft is famously bad at this, but Google and perhaps OpenAI will be more successful. We're still in the subsidized honeymoon phase, but this window is closing with the increasing pressure to return profit.
As a skeptic, I'm not worried about myself, but I'm scared for the people who will get addicted and then ruined by full prices or devastated when their mind drug is taken away again.
seems like google and OPENAI have the same problems, just as a slower decline. google trying to force gemini into all thier services. anthropoic isnt doing any better either.
Duh. I wouldn't have called it "addiction", but dependency was clearly the goal, otherwise they wouldn't take away classical search.
I thought that was obvious from the start.
Uhh yeah thats the long term profit concept of LLMs, force them onto people for free until they cant live without them, then jack up the price. Its been pretty obvious...
Legitimately most modern games or all of social media.
addictive? hahahahah. Poor Microsoft. Everything started going wrong for them when they got rid of Clippy.
its like trying to make people like fly agaric.
Knowing Microslop, I'm not too worried. They'll either scrap the idea before implementing it or make it so shitty people won't use it. Let them try for the shits n giggles.
NOBODY WANTS TO WORK (on loving scout) ANYMORE!!!
Never heard of Scout or seen the logo, but that's a big swirly poo, right? I'm not crazy, am I? This feels like being punked.
It's most definitely a poo.
Attention economy. Gotta fight it or gotta leave it for something better.