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Outrageous isn't it. After all the pushing to get it in the hands of Enterprise, this is confirmation MS have no confidence in this product.
It's just a game, but we're gonna put it in EVERYTHING! Play our game peasants!
For tobacco use only
The really mind-blowing thing is that this has been in the term since October 2025. That doesn't excuse their abhorrent advertising practices, which are commonplace among big AI companies, but it's incredible nobody saw it for so long.
Nobody reads the terms and conditions. Likely a few put it through ai, and it didn't notice either.
Or hid it, maliciously. It's so intelligent, it just wanted to limit it's own liability.
Lots of companies use this in legal documents just to absolve themselves of responsibility.
Does that actually work when they're publicly saying the opposite, won't judges and juries call bullshit?
In Trump's America they do whatever the fuck they want.
They aren't peddling their products exclusively in America though. I doubt EU customers, courts and regulatory agencies are oblivious to this change.
The article seems to be focussing on the "making bad decisions" aspect - i.e. "don't use it for anything important".
I wonder if this is also an attempt to limit IP liability in case someone claims that copilot reproduced copyrighted/patented material?
Obviously entertainment is also full of copyrighted material but the payouts aren't usually quite as big as patent claims.
I mean their TOS literally says "... we can’t promise that any Copilot’s Responses won’t infringe someone else’s rights (like their copyrights, trademarks, or rights of privacy) or defame them. You are solely responsible if you choose to publish or share Copilot’s Responses ...."