Sloptastic

I asked MS Copilot: It returned a list of products. The first 7 were sensible choices, including my own table planning app, PerfectTablePlan. But there were a couple in the list that I didn’t recognise: I clicked through to the web page that Copilot was using as a reference for these products (which I don’t want to link to): The 10 ‘best table planning software’ references comprises: A website that sells physical tables (the ‘Editor’s pick’). A ‘production control and scene management’ product. A ‘retail ordering platform’ product. A ‘church management system’ product. 5 generic diagramming packages. I wouldn’t classify any of them as ‘table planning software’. So much for ‘expertly reviewed’. It looks like the worst kind of AI slop. I have no idea why Copilot would use it as an authoitative source. I doubt if ‘Emily Watson’ and ‘James Whitmore’ even exist. Copilot at least managed to feign some grovelling repentance, when confronted. But the real villains of this piece are whoever is…