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

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

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drea.drechsler Smart disclaimer, doubtlessly demanded by the legal department. I've used it a lot. It's fun to expose it's biases. When challenged on them it's usually pretty up-front about it too. It even agrees it's responses are frequently a reflection of the developers' biases. It's extremely insistent on framing the context of a question to be able to shape it's response to fit these biases, and very effective at it. This is where the biggest dangers lay, in my opinion. It's best use is a way to find and point me to web sites and articles with more reliable, authoritative and peer reviewed information, not for it's "opinions". It's far better than Google, DuckDuckGo or Bing for this since I don't have to wade through screen after screen of the worthless AI generated crap and adverts that litter their outputs. I think it's especially hilarious that software developers would use it to help them code though. I've found it next to worthless just for constructing a simple powershell script. Reply

TechieTwo Perhaps their disclaimer should apply to ALL Microsucks products??? Reply

voyteck But it is borderline unusable, and I'm not only talking about how slow it is (except shortly after midnight CET, although even then it suffers from regular long freezes). I (don't) use the paid Microsoft 365 version via the app. The main problem for me is that I often can't use it to check my copy-editing work, since: 1) The content can't be sex-related. (One can't even ask it in what movie Meg Ryan faked orgasm in a restaurant.) 2) No mentions of torture or even self-inflicted pain. 2) A character can't have a long-gone father who beat women. And so on… I couldn't even perform a grammar check of what I just wrote. Sex-related or something. Reply

hotaru251 if its for entertainment purposes only…why the is it baked into windows and not "optional" ? Reply

ezst036 This seems like a cognitive disconnect. If Copilot is entertainment only why is Microsoft so hard up to force everyone to have Copilot in their OS's and all attempts to remove it are like the borg? Resistance is futile. I just love the mixed messaging. Copilot is the future. Windows is going to be agentic. It's just for entertainment. Reply

Paradoxides My experience of using Copilot(mandated by corporate) is that its responses are insistent about their correctness with absolute certainty, yet nine times out of ten require repeated follow-up to find the actual correct answer. It substitutes for precision with excessive verbosity, providing often both inappropriate answers and answers that prioritize a particular viewpoint(not mine), even when my question should eliminate those responses by the question's specificity. In otherwords, it is exhausting to use in a professional environment. I much prefer Claude and will continue to use Claude on the sly. Reply

Dntknwitall This is all AI LLMs none of this should be taken seriously and it shows the big play on AI. AI is junk and is only going to destroy the way people think and do regular everyday tasks in a negative way. People need to stop their reliance on this and start thinking for themselves and stop using AI for the tough thinking in their lives as it is only going to dumb down the major population and that is already becoming a major problem without AI. Reply

Plurality "Copilot may include advertising." Don't remember that being announced… Reply

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