Microsoft boss on AI content: 'Nobody wants anything that is sloppy'

Is it OK to say "slop" again? Microsoft boss Satya Nadella took to the stage on the London leg of the company's AI tour and said the words that many an IT pro has uttered when faced with a Copilot rollout: "Nobody wants anything that is sloppy in terms of AI creation."

No, they do not. Nadella was talking about AI assistants, agentic AI, augmenting work, and ensuring that the next person in the data chain understands how the output was produced. However, the CEO of Microsoft dropping the word "sloppy" following his well-publicized request that we all move on from denigrating the output of AI is certainly an eyebrow-raiser.

Microsoft's AI tour – aside from some awkward scalability issues at London's Excel (if you saw the queue for the badge collection, you'll know what we mean) – was unsurprisingly all about the company's ambitions for AI ...