Now Comes the Expected Webspam, Framing Microsoft Layoffs as "Hey Hi" Success Story (False Marketing That's Piggybacking the Layoffs)

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 02, 2025

Minutes ago:

Revisit: Microsoft's Big Lies Regarding This Week's Mass Layoffs Have Already Begun (and They're Already Being Spread by Slopfarms)

It's basically marketing spam in a video that starts playing without you clicking it:

A much-needed reality check:

Do not seek medical advice from LLM slop, ever. These things do not 'hallucinate', they just fail to work. They are falsely marketed as "intelligence". █

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