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Satya Nadella wants people to stop calling AI ‘slop’, internet now calls it Microslop

By Raymond Saw January 5, 2026

As AI continues to wreak havoc on global memory supply chains and drive consumer electronics pricing upwards, it’s no wonder that it’s getting a bad rep these days. Perhaps that’s why big tech CEOs seem so keen to defend AI, which is exactly what Microsoft boss Satya Nadella did.

Just before we entered 2026, Satya posted on his blog a shot article titled ‘Looking Ahead to 2026‘. It didn’t actually have anything about Microsoft’s products or offerings in it though. Instead, it was pretty much all about AI, littered with jargons and tech-speak.

Satya mentions about how the novelty of AI has begun to wear off, and is instead now all over the place; ‘widespread diffusion’ as he calls it. He also has a pretty utopian view of AI in that it will become ‘scaffolding’ for human potential, referencing Steve Jobs’ famous quote about how computers are ‘bicycles for the mind’.

Unsurprisingly for the CEO of a company who’s putting AI in almost all of their products, Satya is also hoping that users ‘get beyond the arguments of slop vs sophistication’ and that we instead ‘develop a new equilibrium in terms of our theory of the mind’. He wants users to see AI as ‘new cognitive amplifier tools’, rather than simply being used to make ‘slop’ output.

It seems that he is aware of AI’s not-so-great reputation right now, as he added that ‘we need to make deliberate choices on how we diffuse this technology in the world as a solution to the challenges of people and planet’. It also makes sense that Satya would want users to go beyond ‘AI=slop’ arguments, seeing as Microsoft themselves are betting big on getting users hooked onto AI tools in Windows and Office.

His wish for people to ‘go beyond arguments of slop vs sophistication’ though hasn’t gone well with people on the internet. If you’ve been on X (formerly known as Twitter) over the past few days, you may have seen a number of posts mocking Satya’s blogpost. In fact, many are now calling the tech giant ‘Microslop’ in response.

It’s easy to see why there’s so much backlash to AI among the general public right now. While computers helped the likes of creatives make their output, AI is now trying to replace their output with slop of their own, built on models that rip off their previous work. That’s on top of the insane amount of resources AI data centers require, which in turn are driving up prices across various industries. Then there’s Microsoft’s own push to have all of its users use Copilot in their daily life, which is a little hard as Copilot itself struggles to do a lot of tasks as efficiently as the user itself.

The whole Microslop debacle is also a great example of the Streisand effect in action. Satya’s blogpost, in an effect to get people away from calling AI ‘slop’, has resulted in ‘Microslop’ trending on social media. It’s hard to see Microsoft pulling out of their big AI push anytime soon, but it’s safe to say that unless they manage it well, users will continue to push back until morale improves.

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