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Copilot is 'for entertainment purposes only', per Microsoft's terms of use

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Earlier:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47587866 (6 days ago, 208 comments)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47650569 (15 hours ago, 8 comments)

All Microsoft services are for entertainment purposes only, as in you’d have to be absolutely crazy enough to use before a Microsoft sales rep has taken your execs to a steakhouse and strip club.

> All Microsoft services are for entertainment purposes only

Which is why they're all getting named Copilot now.

Trying to get free/busy working with an exchange hybrid setup is not my kind of entertainment but I don't judge

Discussion (587 points, 6 days ago, 205 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47587866

Go to https://copilot.com and ask a question. You can see from the answer that it is clearly for entertainment only. Three years ago Microsoft was considered a leader for having the foresight to invest in OpenAI. Today they are a laggard.

On the contrary, the first companies to acknowledge the new AI Winter will have a big competitive advantage over those still dumping money into the bottomless pit.

My local ice cream shop has never invested anything in AI. Do you think they'll come out of this ahead?

Ice cream tends not to sell well in winter.

Alas, no winter in my locality ever.

New York City seems to be a counterexample - gelato and ice cream stores everywhere that seem to do decent trade year-round...

I've seen the "success" a non-software company has been having, trying to integrate AI into their processes. A hypothetical competitor who chose not to do so would absolutely be coming out ahead right now.

I can't say whether this trend would continue, but the answer to your question today is "yes".

My local ice cream shop doesn't even have a computer in the building. Well, unless you count the credit card terminal.

Genuinely curious, what could an LLM even do for an ice cream shop? Checkout already takes less time than scooping a cone, and it's even quicker with cash. Maybe it could surveil the customers and employees? But I think that will lose you more customers than it gains.

Generally I would expect the ROI to be negative, like we've seen with most corporate AI projects, so yeah any ice cream shop that didn't invest in "AI" is going to come out ahead of one that poured money into the pit.

There's more to AI than LLMs.

Ok, so that’s good for Apple.

Microsoft is invested heavily in OpenAI?

People still believing in AI being a temporary thing are the same ones refusing to get a mobile phone in the late 90s. Stating it wasn't needed and just a nice to have.

Entertainment purposes but we can't have a virtual waifu. They are missing the main market there.

https://www.uniladtech.com/news/elon-musk-hints-at-controver...

> (Ultimately) "One big step closer to anime girls becoming real," Musk replied: "Optimus will enable them to become physically real."

Congrats, you just found the answer to the Fermi Paradox!

I can see the right branding: CopePilot

Copilust

Codependepilot, as the parasocial story-generator enables and validates pathological outcomes. (Not limited to romance, either.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codependency

Such a time wasted finding a product name (·•᷄‎ࡇ•᷅ ) let's just call it Copilot

Which of the 78 copilots? https://teybannerman.github.io/strategy/2026/03/31/how-many-...

Does this mean I can tell my team to stop requesting CoPilot code reviews on my pull requests?

Why is there an AI chat window on my GitHub homepage? I just wanted a list of my repos!

This article is about another one of Microsoft’s Copilot products.

However you can disable the AI chat window on the GitHub homepage in settings: https://github.com/settings/copilot/features

I can understand people being entertained by typing rm -rf /

The idea that Copilot can do the same, and I can't sue Microsoft for it seems to me a similar kind of entertainment.

Unfortunately, my company isn't allowed to purchase entertainment for its employees because we've received advice it is considered payment-in-kind

https://dev.to/tambet_vli_53f2fdcd17c0e/copilot-is-for-enter...

which copilot?

I get the sense that this is the LLM version of the all caps boilerplate disclaimer in every software warranty.

I think every sequencing technology I know that is used as a diagnosing help has the disclaimer: "For Research Use Only. Not for use in diagnostic procedures". The sales reps go from hospital to hospital selling their sequencers, and point the disclaimer with a smirk. They are covering their asses.

True .... sometimes it gives funny answers

Perhaps for most it is. lol

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