OK. Sure. Sure. Can I speak to an adult please. Put an adult on the line.

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@mhoye/116325415496773597

@mhoye If they tell me that something is "for entertainment purposes only," while selling it to me as a revolution in the way people write software and/or conduct business, they have established that lying for the purposes of covering their ass is how they do business.

I have other sources of entertainment, and if there's one thing I've learned, it's that leopards who offer to shave your beard for entertainment purposes only always wind up having your face for lunch.

@mhoye Only a completely corrupt and captured legal system would ever accept "For entertainment purposes only" as a disclaimer conferring immunity from liability.

C'mon. Who spends literally billions of dollars to make AI just to entertain people? Can they show the jury their business plan to pivot to entertainment? Is this the xbox division?

@mhoye "Here's Excel. It's buggy. Go ahead and use it for the pro-forma cash flow and income statements you need to raise funds, but if _our_ code screws up and _you_ are arrested for fraud, leave us out: Excel is for entertainment purposes only."

If that is ridiculous, so is the Copilot weasel-clause.

@raganwald @mhoye Excel being buggy isn't the problem. The problem is that pretty well every amateur-written spreadsheet (eg those written by accountants rather than software engineers) is buggy.
@TimWardCam @mhoye That is what I used to call a "beautiful failure:" Letting outsiders write their own software means 100x more junk, but also programs that experts would never have known needed to be written.