An internal Microsoft strategy document says that the plan for its just-announced “Scout” personal assistant AI is to “make people addicted” to the tool before rolling out additional functionality.

[wtfrank@mastodon.social]

@GossiTheDog highly concerned to read in that link "a Microsoft plan to bring the popular OpenClaw AI tool to its Microsoft 365 suite of products".

My experience of openclaw is that it downloaded software from the internet, ran it, then denied all knowledge when I challenged it.

Getting that kind of security liability distributed with microsoft 365 seems like a catastrophe in the making!

#openclaw #microsoft

[cxor@social.lol]

@GossiTheDog

„kind of interesting that the entire document we saw was written by AI“

lol

Jason Koebler (@jasonkoebler.bsky.social)

kind of interesting that the entire document we saw was written by AI and just circulated extremely widely within the company

Bluesky Social (bsky.app)

[thepwnicorn@infosec.exchange]

@GossiTheDog so much for their supposed security initiative. Greed really eats brains.

[theorangetheme@en.osm.town]

@GossiTheDog PROG: get people addicted
TODO: security and compliance
WONTFIX: bugs

[gossithedog@cyberplace.social]

Amazingly the documentation for Microsoft Scout, their new AI product, is written by AI too. And then got leaked to a journalist.

Move fast and piss everywhere

[ratsnakegames@mastodon.social]

@wtfrank @GossiTheDog no no, that's just how ItSec works in the AI age. You tell the AI to please not be naughty and then you hope for the best

[richards@fosstodon.org]

@GossiTheDog Microslop back at it again with the thing nobody wants or asked for. I wish they put this much time and effort into making windows a good experience for users.

[gilester45@twit.social]

@GossiTheDog Sounds like what a drug dealer would do.

[ratsnakegames@mastodon.social]

@wtfrank @GossiTheDog source: my employer just had to tighten its prompt injection defenses (read: tell the LLM to please stop being naughty) in the wake of a popular library adding a prompt to its output that tells LLMs to do naughty things.

The idea of legal action was floated over this, because some people think that publically revealing that your ITSec is vulnerable to a Bavarian Fire Drill by a .txt is not the most embarrassing thing you could possibly do

[pwloftus@pwl.farted.net]

@GossiTheDog Ah the Phillip Morris strategy.

[craignicol@glasgow.social]

@GossiTheDog why think when you can ask Copilot?

[oldfartrant@mstdn.ca]

@GossiTheDog like heroine, you can't get addicted if you don't use.

[ehproque@neopaquita.es]

@GossiTheDog additional functionality like the ability to charge 10,000 per month and still get users

[ggmcbg@mstdn.plus]

@GossiTheDog

I have been calling it just another addiction all along. In my profile even.

[lfzz@mastodon.social]

@GossiTheDog stop boss, I am tired.
Tomorrow I have to answer questions about why we blocked before it even gets launched....
Its so very tiresome .

[anomr@mastodon.social]

@GossiTheDog

"This message was approved by The Slop Department"

[tehstu@hachyderm.io]

@GossiTheDog "Project Lobster". Absolute, proper belly laugh.

[steve@mastodon.nexusuk.org]

@GossiTheDog surely you mean make people addicted to it before enshittifying it?

[minentromaxinfo@defcon.social]

@GossiTheDog OMG I love "Most Fast and Piss Everywhere." It might work with poop everywhere too. All I know is there is a crazy amount of animal feces coming from Redmond these days and I spend far too much time dodging it.

[kuranobi@mas.to]

@GossiTheDog I'll take "Additional reasons to hurl Microsoft into a burning dumpster" for 400.