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Re: Microsoft: Copilot is for entertainment purposes only

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The guy sent the bank a contract. It was the first contract between them, it wasn't a "new contract" (as opposed to the old one? no such thing), it wasn't a "change" to an existing contract. Why did he need to highlight some terms? How do you mean "change the nature of the agreement", change from what? They didn't have an agreement before this. > because it's no longer a change, it's a new contract that replaces the…

And this is why most programmers should stay away from law... He changed the material terms of the contract so the other parties‘ obligations and rights were substantially different than what they had thought they were in the original version. In the U.S. his actions would have resulted in him being bound by the contract but the other party not being bound. Doubling the price of a contract is a material term. Basical…

Yeah except you're completely misunderstanding their criticism of this entire thing. This has nothing to do with "lack of knowledge" and everything to do with criticising the premises and framing of the law in Western societies.

Re: Microsoft: Copilot is for entertainment purposes only

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I once wrote a contract document in PostScript that changed the wording based on the date. Two parties could cryptographically sign an agreement in the document, which would change when printed on a later date. One of the reasons we don’t use PostScript so much any more.

Isn't PDF also programmable? I think it supports javascript and even a subset of PostScript if I'm not mistaken.

> I think it supports javascript

Indeed it does! https://github.com/ading2210/doompdf

Re: Microsoft: Copilot is for entertainment purposes only

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Lawyers are playing Calvinball again. I have no idea why the law finds this kind of argumentation compelling. "I clearly intentionally deceived, but I stashed some bullshit legalese into a document no one will read so my deception is completely OK."

I don't think its really ever been challenged in court, so it's more of a "let's hedge our bets" thing? I could be wrong -I'm pretty sure it's happened once before.

Re: Microsoft: Copilot is for entertainment purposes only

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Wow, if you brought a paper contract to court that mutated itself depending which way you look at the paper, I wonder what a judge would think of that? Personally I would crumple it up and pitch it out the window. I don't know why they can't simply be clear about what clauses apply to which geographies. An IP address should not be assumed as a reliable indicator of the jurisdiction in which an end-user resides. (Eg.…

Having different contracts for different countries with different rules is a normal thing.

This is not it, though.

This is one contract that mutates.

Other websites have EU terms, us terms, etc and declare which one you are covered under.

Re: Microsoft: Copilot is for entertainment purposes only

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I can hear the lawyers huddled around a conference table rolling the bones and chanting the sacred words to come up with that "get out of trouble free" card. It told your son he had terminal cancer and should kill himself... sorry, it clearly says for Entertainment Purposes only.

"Are you not entertained?"

I , for one. am extremely entertained by this.

Re: Microsoft: Copilot is for entertainment purposes only

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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.

Well, it's a little more than that, like they agreed to issue him a debit card
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