alt Hacker News15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram
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I propose to adopt the word „morge”, a verb meaning „use an LLM to generate content that badly but recognizably plagiarizes some other known/famous work”.
A noun describing such piece of slop could be „morgery”.
Everything you publish now on will be stolen and reused one way or another.
On the one hand, I feel for people who have their creations ripped off.
On the other hand, it makes sense for Microsoft to rip this off, as part of the continuing enshittification of, well, everything.
Having been subjected to GitFlow at a previous employer, after having already done git for years and version control for decades, I can say that GitFlow is... not good.
And, I'm not the only one who feels this way.
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It seems to me rather less likely that someone at Microsoft knowingly and deliberately took his specific diagram and "ran it through an AI image generator" than that someone asked an AI image generator to produce a diagram with a similar concept, and it responded with a chunk of mostly-memorized data, which the operator believed to be a novel creation. How many such diagrams were there likely to have been, in the training set? Is overfitting really so unlikely?
The author of the Microsoft article most likely failed to credit or link back to his original diagram because they had no idea it existed.
looks like a vendor, and we have a group now doing a post-mortem trying to figure out how it happened. It'll be removed ASAFP
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Morged I got nothing...
I'm failing to understand the criticism here
Is it about the haphazardous deployment of AI generated content without revising/proof reading the output?
Or is it about using some graphs without attributing their authors?
if it's the latter (even if partially) then I have to disagree with that angle. A very widespread model isn't owned by anyone surely, I don't have to reference newton everytime I write an article on gravity no? but maybe I'm misunderstanding the angle the author is coming from
(Sidenote: if it was meant in a lightheaded way then I can see it making sense)
A somewhat contrarian perspective is that this diagram is so simple and widely used and has been reproduced (ie redrawn) so many times that is very easy to assume this does not have a single origin and that its public domain.
> The AI rip-off was not just ugly. It was careless, blatantly amateuristic, and lacking any ambition, to put it gently. Microsoft unworthy.
LOL, I disagree. It's very on brand for Microslop.