Ain’t nobody buying it for the official price, let alone twice that lol

For some time I worked for Microsoft on their Copilot AI (outsource, I did not know I was signing up to work for Microsoft).

I cannot tell you how many good translators Microsoft hires just to rate Copilot’s responses in various languages. They often had interesting insights to share, but whenever I asked my managers where to put it, they said we don’t care. It’s just rated 1 to 5, and that’s it. Nobody even cares about language-specific nuances.

Technically none of the translators are ever ‘hired’, let alone ‘employed’. All the work is based on shit contracts through several proxies. Some people weren’t even sure that they were doing work for Microsoft. Hell, as a junior manager even I never had contact with anybody from Microsoft. Only our seniors.

It’s an overall incredibly depressing environment. Very knowledgeable and passionate people still try to do their jobs as well as possible and provide insightful feedback, despite the fact it’s supposed to completely replace them. Only to be ignored and ghosted when a given language is deemed not worth the cost by microslop.

I was literally the only person who ever responded to translators labeled as no longer useful. Even though they still had their contracts active. And I know that, because several of them told me that. Nobody else bothered to even respond as people asked for any available jobs when struggling to make a living.

Aside from complaining, make sure to do something about it. Otherwise there’s no point.

1. Absolutely use uBlock Origin and Sponsorblock on all devices you watch youtube on.
2. There’s a Return Youtube Dislike extension you can use. Bonus: you can use data from it to shame various’ companies videos, which is what youtube primarily wanted to avoid by removing dislikes.
3. For creators mostly - there are other video-sharing websites you can post your content on (or even easily mirror your youtube uploads). Make sure to upload somewhere else too, so that more people can leave youtube forever.

Do whatever you can to harm youtube (or Google more broadly), as well as support alternatives. Memes and complaining by themselves are pointless, and solve zero issues.

Some people really do say that Linux is too much hassle, but then go through a 30 step process just to have a slightly less bloated piece of spyware.

I mean, it’s good that this option exists. I’m sure it’ll be helpful for people who need Windows 10 for some obscure music software, that doesn’t work well or at all in a virtual machine or through wine. That might really be Windows 10’s singular last use case.