Microsoft: Copilot is for entertainment purposes only

Post by nunez » Tue, Mar 31, 2026, 5:34 PM UTC

Post by kklisura » Tue, Mar 31, 2026, 5:40 PM UTC

Post by marcosdumay » Tue, Mar 31, 2026, 5:45 PM UTC

voxic11 wrote: post #29

marcosdumay wrote: post #20

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When the contract is purposefully obtuse and hard to understand, that should be a valid legal defense. When it's huge, falls upon people that can't justify a lawyer, and keeps changing all the time, one shouldn't even need to claim it. It should be automatically invalid.

> Copilot is for entertainment purposes only. It can make mistakes, and it may not work as intended. Don’t rely on Copilot for important advice. Use Copilot at your own risk. Seems pretty clear to me, do you really think people need a lawyer to understand that?

Post by xboxnolifes » Tue, Mar 31, 2026, 5:52 PM UTC

ryandrake wrote: post #46

torginus wrote: post #16

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My two cents is that if it didn't, 'I didn't know that was illegal/breach of contract' would be a valid legal defense. Although intentionally saying things that contradict whats in the contract might be legally objectionable.

I wish we lived in more of a "spirit of the law" world than a "letter of the law" world, where everything needs to be spelled out, but we don't. A small minority of people enjoy Rules Lawyering their way through life, insisting on trying to "gotcha" counterparties who are acting in good faith, so as a consequence, we all have to be Rules Lawyers and everything needs to be spelled out.

Post by graemep » Tue, Mar 31, 2026, 5:53 PM UTC

observationist wrote: post #42

crote wrote: post #33

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On the other hand: imagine someone putting "by agreeing to this, you owe us $1,000,000,000 - unless you opt out in writing within 90 days" halfway down the 100-page EULA of some cookie-cutter smartphone app. It is not at all uncommon for such absurd contract terms to be unenforceable - especially in B2C contracts, although it might even be tricky for B2B clickthrough ones. The idea being that most contracts are fairl…

On the other other hand, they can put whatever they want in there, and because they've forced everything into arbitration with "third party" mediation and carved out their own little niche of the justice system, they'll never actually go to court, they'll just settle and evolve their ToS and contracts and word games accordingly.