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Re: Microsoft: Copilot is for entertainment purposes only

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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.

Contract language is obtuse and hard to understand precisely because of previous challenges over meaning. There are stock phrasings and clauses in contracts that have established (by precident) legal meanings. That's why contracts seem to be walls of boilerplate. If you just wrote them in "plain language" there would be far too much ambiguity and arguing over what was really meant or implied or agreed to.

A company acting in good faith could provide both a binding version, and a version in plain language.

Re: Microsoft: Copilot is for entertainment purposes only

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Anthropic does a somewhat similar thing. If you visit their ToS (the one for Max/Pro plans) from a European IP address, they replace one section with this: Non-commercial use only. You agree not to use our Services for any commercial or business purposes and we (and our Providers) have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity. It's funny that…

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Re: Microsoft: Copilot is for entertainment purposes only

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Anthropic does a somewhat similar thing. If you visit their ToS (the one for Max/Pro plans) from a European IP address, they replace one section with this: Non-commercial use only. You agree not to use our Services for any commercial or business purposes and we (and our Providers) have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity. It's funny that…

"Surely our customers understand it's just Latin! Claude _for_ you!"

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https://www.rt.com/business/man-outsmarts-banks-wins-court-2... I can never find an article that mentions the final outcome.

It is on Wikipedia under T-Bank, this seems the best source that announces the resolution: https://web.archive.org/web/20220905212700/https://www.tinko...

From the Wikipedia article:

> The legal action was later withdrawn by both the parties after an undisclosed settlement was reached.

Re: Microsoft: Copilot is for entertainment purposes only

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I'm old enough to remember when everything was "Active". Active Directory, ActiveX, etc.

And Active Directory is probably the only still relevant one. Is it going to become Copilot Directory soon?

Entra ID

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/fundamentals/compare

Re: Microsoft: Copilot is for entertainment purposes only

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No, as part of the Cameron rules of 2016, concession means concession, regardless of anything else (including whether or not it’s a good idea).

Does that mean I can get an ice cream?

I think so, I think they proposed ice creams only for those who haven’t been in Nidd since the 2021 Paris incident, but that got voted down.

Re: Microsoft: Copilot is for entertainment purposes only

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Anthropic does a somewhat similar thing. If you visit their ToS (the one for Max/Pro plans) from a European IP address, they replace one section with this: Non-commercial use only. You agree not to use our Services for any commercial or business purposes and we (and our Providers) have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity. It's funny that…

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OpenAI's ToS seems OK to me, it's just Microsoft and Anthropic.
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