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Seems fine to me for the consumer facing product terms lol
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.
If it's for entertainment purposes only then why is it being shoved down our throats at every opportunity???
To be clear this is only for the standalone Copilot chat or app and website; not for the “Copilot” services integrated into Office 365 etc.
> 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.

> We don’t own Your Content, but we may use Your Content to operate Copilot and improve it. By using Copilot, you grant us permission to use Your Content, which means we can copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, edit, translate, and reformat it, and we can give those same rights to others who work on our behalf.

lol

i like the way that when ai does something good of course the people who built it should make a lot of money but when it does something bad no one is responsible
They're just trying to pick up that Disney deal (Clippy rhymes with Mickey)
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."
Some 20 years ago there was a story about a guy who was opening a bank account. The bank sent the contract, the guy ameneded it with things like "you will give le unlimited credit that I do not need to repay" (if my memory serves me right).

He signed, sent both copies, got his bank signed copy back

Went yo the bank, the bank sued him, he won (the judge told the bank that when you play dirty games you sometimes loose) and they ultimately settled.

I have frequently proposed a objective legal standard for false advertising that handles that: "Technically, your honor". If somebody says that in court, they lose.

The words they used, as commonly understood by the target audience, were intentionally crafted to be interpreted differently than what they were going to say they meant in court. They spent time, effort, and money, ran focus groups, and carefully selected and curated their words to be incorrectly interpreted by the target audience to reach knowingly false conclusions.

The correct standard should be that they spent time, effort, and money, ran focus groups, and carefully selected and curated their words to be correctly interpreted by the target audience to reach true conclusions. Their statements should only be accidentally incorrect in proportion to the time and effort spent crafting and distributing them.

"Technically, your honor", should be treated as the ethical abomination it is.

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.
> Copilot may include advertising
The section titled

> IMPORTANT DISCLOSURES & WARNINGS

Tells us:

> You may stop using Copilot at any time.

That's an odd thing to include in a ToS.

> > You may stop using Copilot at any time.

> That's an odd thing to include in a ToS.

Maybe it's the only Microsoft product for which that's true? (It certainly feels that way, sometimes.)

Were you able to stop using Adobe software any anytime before they got in trouble for making cancelling so hard?
How does this affect Copilot in VS 2022 / VS 2026? Because this is kind of insulting to a professional. I really wish Microsoft would learn to name things correctly. There's Copilot the ChatGPT-like service, then there's Copilot for Visual Studio which is not the same as far as I can tell.
Can I get this on a sticker to pass out anyone tries to shove copilot down my throat at work?

Maybe a shirt, could sell it on the Microsoft store even. Now that would be entertainment.

I've been reading Jurassic Park recently. Hammond's monologue about expensive technology only being fundable via Entertainment seems very relevant.
a blanket "entertainment only" disclaimer likely wouldn't survive scrutiny for a product actively/relentlessly marketed as a productivity tool
I thought a year ago when I bought a new laptop with 365 and Copilot integrated that they would make better use of AI and its integration. I can't think of when I actually used it and cancelled any subscription associated with it. On the otherhand, I use ChatGPT all the time.
Ah yes, the new "for tobacco use only" of tech.
No way that holds up in court when they are marketing it for things other than entertainment.
I told you so, dear LLM evangelists.
But they know better. They probably asked an LLM.
Non-exact software will be causing sleepless nights for non-exact legal writers.
If it is for entertainment purposes only, why am I not laughing when I use it?
Some people find being whipped while bound in leather to be entertaining.
They didn't say whose entertainment. It certainly isn't yours. Meanwhile they are laughing their way to the bank.
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 a plan called "Pro" cannot be used professionally.

https://www.anthropic.com/legal/consumer-terms

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Ha out of curiosity I loaded that same consumer terms URL on both a USA and a UK VPN exit node - sure enough, the UK terms inject that extra clause you quoted banning commercial usage that is not present for USA users.

diff of the changes between US and UK:

https://www.diffchecker.com/BtqVrR9p/

There's the usual expected legal boilerplate differences. However, the UK version injects the additional clause at line 134 that has no analog in the US version.

Well, there's your rationale as to why AI cannot replace you.

When sh!t hits the fan, Anthropic will immediately point to this clause. Who knows, maybe a court would see it as valid.

Meanwhile, your customer (and thus, your management) is looking for someone to blame for excrement making contact with the impellers. And that someone's gonna be you.

the moment they can, each token will be 10,100,1000x more expensive
Software in general has disclaimed any warranties or fitness for purpose for as long as I can remember. This is nothing new.
It's only called Pro so they can charge you a Pro rate.
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OpenAI's ToS seems OK to me, it's just Microsoft and Anthropic.
"Surely our customers understand it's just Latin! Claude _for_ you!"
Just today afternoon, I did read a bit trough Adobes EULA and I saw most of Adobes Software is not allowed to be used from children. I guess most (todays) software are not allowed for children because of the whole user tracking and spying.
It could also be that minors aren't allowed to sign contracts, which a EULA could maybe be considered (I'm not a lawyer)