Microsoft says Copilot is for entertainment purposes only, not serious use — firm pushing AI hard to consumers and businesses tells users not to rely on it for important advice
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-says-copilot-is-for-entertainment-purposes-only-not-serious-use-firm-pushing-ai-hard-to-consumers-tells-users-not-to-rely-on-it-for-important-advice
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It’s basically a yo-yo then
Basically absolving themselves from future lawsuits from those businesses.
I’m sure that will work out just fine!
Microslop cannot even get AI right..
Java was similar—maybe still is, I haven’t checked. They expressly forbid it for being used where lives could be in peril.
“Here’s our useless AI that must be installed on your computer and integrated into all of your applications and browsers! Don’t talk to it!”
> Microsoft says Copilot is for entertainment purposes only, not serious…
So, microslop deploying the Fox News defense…
So another company now telling everyone what some of us already know… AI is nowhere near as good as these same people tried to convince everyone it was.
And if it’s only for entertainment purposes then why push it on businesses, people go to work to do a job and hopefully get paid a decent salary, they don’t go so they can be entertained by a bit of shit software.
I think I might start a new business that sends clowns and magicians into offices and makes them pay before they leave otherwise they just stay to continually entertain staff.
must have found some oopsies
> While generative AI is a useful tool and can indeed increase productivity, it’s still just a tool that offers no accountability for any mistakes that it might make.
Nonsense! AI will apologize and say it shouldn’t have done that and says it would understand why you felt it violated your boundaries by deleting three years of work unprompted and it will promise to do better in the future.
But I just deleted all those registry keys
Tell that to the NASA astronauts hurling toward the moon without email
Lol wut? Are you fucking serious? You’ve been cramming it down our throats sideways this entire time!
There should be a law against, “for entertainment purposes only”, AI, news, information should not be ambiguously true as provided by those that create it
We put it in Excel for when you wanna have some fun!
“You have to have this thing suck up a stupid amount of your computers resources because its so awesome its obviously the future!!!!”
“But legally, dont use it for anything important. Its a fucking moronic toy, so dont trust it. But its awesome and you need to have it.”
So their CEO has just been goofing off at work these past three years?
Unless you built and trained the AI model to do the thing you’re asking it to do, and you’re qualified enough to know whether the results are accurate, nobody should trust any AI for important advice. AI is a tool, not a solution.
Got it; I’ll be pushing to have it banned at my company then, for the same reasons we ban entertainment like Netflix, Hulu, Steam, etc. I’ll be more than happy to see Copilot cut right off when it hits the firewall.
Also this is true for all ai
Sorta like how fox news said they weren’t a news service but entertainment?
It writes a hell of a cover letter.
Ah, kinect 3.0
“this absolutely essential peripheral is inseparable from our console operating system so there’s no way we release the xbone without kinect”
Spoiler alert : yes they can and they will.
Why cant these assholes ever be chill like Wozniak. Just normal guys who can be content with making it big without going off on a lifelong race chasing the dragon at everyone else’s expense like sociopaths. You never catch it fuckers.
Persuades OEM to make a physical Copilot key part of the form factor, forces Copilot as Opt-Out instead of Opt-In, then says shit like “Use Copilot at your own risk.”
No. Oh no no no, yall rebranded the entire OS as Copilot in all but name. So say it. “Use Windows at your own risk.”
Is that a “pop” I just heard? Like a bubble bursting?
Is this why windows immediately reinstalls copilot without my permission within minutes of me uninstalling it? Fuck right off Microslop.
Oh how the turntable
If that’s true, then stop fucking making it a default software in every place. I don’t have fuckin Fandango App forced into every application that I can’t uninstall.
The Fox News defense
Then stop integrating it into everything! Even the goddamm right click has it now
well duh, if you actually play with AI for long enough you realize it’s an idiot and we’re throwing away our economy for a “make shit up” machine.
“Tell me about a famous war”
“Ah the war of Monticello War of 1846, a classic, quite fascinating, it featured the first use of [… more idiotic babbling …] Do you have any other questions about wars? 🪖⚔️”
“Yeah, did you make any of that up?”
“It seems I made a mistake and got caught up in the moment! I did invent all of that. Thank you for keeping me honest.”
My excel spreadsheets are full of entertaining numbers and they bring me great joy… I need copilot to play with the data and make me laugh. Honestly Microsoft stop drinking and just use Linux.
Trying telling that to upper-level management at the large, prestigious R1 STEM university I work at…and the folks who fund us (state legislature, DoD, Army, etc.).
“Use it for everything and trust it with your business and money! Just dont sue us if it breaks your stuff”
Ahh the fox news argument. *We aren’t News we are entertainment*
For those who don’t speak legalzie they are trying to brand this as a toy so when data leaks and whatever else happens they can try and cover themselves legally.
This is another red flag of why you should get rid of windows ( if you can) ASAP.
Then let us choose to not have it
Analogous to a vitamin supplement. Might not help, but we didn’t say it would!
“Are you not entertained!?”
This is the beginning of the fall.
You know that app we advertised to you as being good for a dude’s pizza business?
You should only use it for magic 8-ball type questions and fortune telling games.
I am forced to use copilot at work. I use Claude at home.
Copilot sucks so bad I can’t even put it into words. If you need a fairly simple script it’s good enough (9/10 it’ll just sort of work) and maybe excel formulas. But brainstorming a technical project. You’ll spent 5x the amount time you would have just using google.
Despite custom instructions it talks like a LinkedIn super use.
Claude isn’t perfect either and requires a fair amount of supervision for complex stuff but it makes copilot seem your coding partner is a slice of pizza..that’s made from wax so you can’t even enjoy it.
Microslop with another fail.
Are you not entertained?
If it’s for entertainment then they should have re animated clippy!!
Ah the Fox News strategy.
Paired with decades of everything being made consumer responsibility they really have the best of all worlds – we own everything but if something gets fucked up it’s your fault.
I mean, this is just par for the course. Invest billions into a product in a desperate quest for a return, consequences on society be damned, then try to weasel your way out of any liability for the blight your inflicting on everyone.