New by me - Microsoft Vibing.
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New by me - Microsoft Vibing. A very strange fake open source project published by Microsoft employees, which gathers screenshots and voice recordings of users with unique machine identifiers attached. Not sure how this one has happened.
@GossiTheDog I'm guessing Yaoyao Chang did what I'd be tempted to do, if I worked at MS: Orchestrate some agentic whatever with a prompt like "Pretend you're me, working at MS research and publish an innovative new TTS app on github and the windows store," and then duck out of the office for a couple of weeks, letting that thing answer all emails and github issues.
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@GossiTheDog I'm guessing Yaoyao Chang did what I'd be tempted to do, if I worked at MS: Orchestrate some agentic whatever with a prompt like "Pretend you're me, working at MS research and publish an innovative new TTS app on github and the windows store," and then duck out of the office for a couple of weeks, letting that thing answer all emails and github issues.
@GossiTheDog IOW this is basically Office Space, but set in 2026. When he eventually gets back, I'm pretty sure Chang will be recognized as a straight shooter with upper management written all over him.
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I withheld a load of details from the blog on this so far btw, if you're a researcher and want a laugh pull the binaries and have a look at what the MS Research team were doing and poke the backend.
Something tells me Microsoft are going to end up freezing the Azure backend for Vibing and having a security incident.
@GossiTheDog I am reporting it internally ... hopefully someone will care
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I withheld a load of details from the blog on this so far btw, if you're a researcher and want a laugh pull the binaries and have a look at what the MS Research team were doing and poke the backend.
Something tells me Microsoft are going to end up freezing the Azure backend for Vibing and having a security incident.
Vibing has been suspended and downloads removed pending a compliance review by Microsoft. https://github.com/VibingJustSpeakIt/Vibing
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Vibing has been suspended and downloads removed pending a compliance review by Microsoft. https://github.com/VibingJustSpeakIt/Vibing
Also worth noting - Yaoyao Chang made the changes to the Vibing-Team repo, which is the first time Microsoft has officially been linked to Vibing.
It’s a very strange situation where MS were covertly operating an AI service, while pretending it was an open source project.
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Also worth noting - Yaoyao Chang made the changes to the Vibing-Team repo, which is the first time Microsoft has officially been linked to Vibing.
It’s a very strange situation where MS were covertly operating an AI service, while pretending it was an open source project.
@GossiTheDog So the company from Redmond should now be called Viboslop?
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Also worth noting - Yaoyao Chang made the changes to the Vibing-Team repo, which is the first time Microsoft has officially been linked to Vibing.
It’s a very strange situation where MS were covertly operating an AI service, while pretending it was an open source project.
@GossiTheDog this from a company that shipped Windows Me while pretending it was an OS
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Also worth noting - Yaoyao Chang made the changes to the Vibing-Team repo, which is the first time Microsoft has officially been linked to Vibing.
It’s a very strange situation where MS were covertly operating an AI service, while pretending it was an open source project.
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Also worth noting - Yaoyao Chang made the changes to the Vibing-Team repo, which is the first time Microsoft has officially been linked to Vibing.
It’s a very strange situation where MS were covertly operating an AI service, while pretending it was an open source project.
@GossiTheDog I feel like I'm being led into a Cyberpunk questline; with the unplanned discovery of a Redmond deniable op harvesting data out of a front operation.
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Also worth noting - Yaoyao Chang made the changes to the Vibing-Team repo, which is the first time Microsoft has officially been linked to Vibing.
It’s a very strange situation where MS were covertly operating an AI service, while pretending it was an open source project.
@GossiTheDog wtaf is going on with slopya nadella's company
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Also worth noting - Yaoyao Chang made the changes to the Vibing-Team repo, which is the first time Microsoft has officially been linked to Vibing.
It’s a very strange situation where MS were covertly operating an AI service, while pretending it was an open source project.
@GossiTheDog it looks like they removed the notice just after you posted about it.
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@simonzerafa @GossiTheDog Would love to have this design on stickers.
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Also worth noting - Yaoyao Chang made the changes to the Vibing-Team repo, which is the first time Microsoft has officially been linked to Vibing.
It’s a very strange situation where MS were covertly operating an AI service, while pretending it was an open source project.
@GossiTheDog Following corporate compliance rules isn’t a very “VibeFriendly” thing to do.
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Also worth noting - Yaoyao Chang made the changes to the Vibing-Team repo, which is the first time Microsoft has officially been linked to Vibing.
It’s a very strange situation where MS were covertly operating an AI service, while pretending it was an open source project.
Vibing has been made unavailable for download from Microsoft Store:
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Vibing has been made unavailable for download from Microsoft Store:
Microsoft are now trying to hide the compliance review message, by removing the download links and removing the compliance review messages on Github. https://github.com/VibingJustSpeakIt/Vibing/commit/ab8e6302543754685f85cf02e02d1d0287d2f4f0
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Also worth noting - Yaoyao Chang made the changes to the Vibing-Team repo, which is the first time Microsoft has officially been linked to Vibing.
It’s a very strange situation where MS were covertly operating an AI service, while pretending it was an open source project.
@GossiTheDog this reeks of an employee (or small group of them) unilaterally sidestepping process. probably in part because the company culture around rigor has rotted to the point where they thought it was acceptable.
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Microsoft are now trying to hide the compliance review message, by removing the download links and removing the compliance review messages on Github. https://github.com/VibingJustSpeakIt/Vibing/commit/ab8e6302543754685f85cf02e02d1d0287d2f4f0
@GossiTheDog sure looks like vibe coding cleanup.
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@GossiTheDog this reeks of an employee (or small group of them) unilaterally sidestepping process. probably in part because the company culture around rigor has rotted to the point where they thought it was acceptable.
@GossiTheDog maybe keep an eye on this dude's linkedin to see if he's on a job hunt soon lol
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Vibing has been made unavailable for download from Microsoft Store:
@GossiTheDog as someone familiar with the microsoft store, that's "been made unavailable to download if you didn't already have it". the file is still available on the backend and anyone who already had it can still redownload as usual
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@GossiTheDog this reeks of an employee (or small group of them) unilaterally sidestepping process. probably in part because the company culture around rigor has rotted to the point where they thought it was acceptable.
@gsuberland @GossiTheDog It feels like Vibing is a personal project of a Microsoft employee who blurred the lines by referencing it in the VibeVoice Microsoft project. Maybe the reference wasn't even intended given the dev is clearly vibe-coding. Doesn't excuse it if that's what happened just stating my theory.
