If you were already skeptical — if not angry — about Microsoft’s ongoing campaign to clutter Windows 11 with useless AI features, then you’re really going to hate this video.
in a 30 second clip Uploaded over the weekendProgrammer Ryan Fleury demonstrates how the same can be done using Windows 11’s alleged AI-powered search bar what does it really tell youO doesn’t come close to working as advertised.
At the beginning of the video, the Settings page search bar, with its glowing AI icon, recommends searching “My mouse pointer is too small.” It goes against common search function wisdom that you should look using keywords, not entire sentences, but whatever: the AI magic can take care of that for you, right?
But as it turns out, when Flurry searches “my mouse pointer is too small”, as accurately stated in the search suggestion, nothing comes up. He waits for about ten seconds with no luck. But when he later looks at the “test”, he gets three results.
“This isn’t a real company,” Fleury said angrily.
He was joined by dozens of netizens who mocked the misfiring feature, using a tough-but-fair new derogatory term: “microslop.”
Whether you like it or not, Microsoft is not shying away from equipping Windows 11 with AI features. It has ended support for its older operating system, Windows 10, in the hopes you’ll upgrade and try its CoPilot-integrated successor, its AI chatbot slash virtual assistant.
The AI transformation is intended to be so sweeping that various executives have described the pivot in terms like turning Windows 11 into an “agent OS,” or even better, a “canvas for AI.” Some changes include putting an icon for Copilot in the middle of your taskbar and integrating Copilot into Windows Explorer, allowing you to right-click documents to generate summaries. Other features in the works include CoPilot Vision, which lets AI analyze everything you see on a desktop display, and CoPilot Action, which lets AI take actions on your behalf.
Many users fear that deeply woven AI integration poses a security risk, a fear informed by past Windows 11 AI blunders, in which an older version of its AI “Recall” feature, which creates a history of your computer activity by continuously taking screenshots, was caught saving sensitive data like Social Security numbers, and storing screenshots in an unsecured folder.
The backlash against Microsoft’s AI pivot has grown rapidly since it announced it would end support for Windows 10, but as widespread anti-AI sentiment is also on the rise, the outrage recently reached a boiling point with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s recent plea that we should stop using the term “slop,” new slang to describe low-quality text, images, and video produced by AI models. Is. Unfortunately for Nadella, he inadvertently unleashed a classic case of the Streisand effect, and soon after his “slop” comments, came the term “microslop.” suddenly went viral online,
“‘AI writes 90% of our code!!!!'” Fleury joked while boasting Created by Nadella And other tech CEOs. “Don’t worry, we can tell.”
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