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RE: https://mastodon.social/@invadersil/116324993175863094

TWO THINGS:

1. it’s shocking how well written this terms of service document is. #Microslop uses plain language and proper emphatic formatting to identify what’s important.

2. this was updated on October 24, 2025. since then NOT ONE TECH JOURNALIST has read it; because, not one tech "journalist" has reported that #Copilot IS MEANT AS #ENTERTAINMENT.

Fourth Estate my ass.

Satya Nadella gifted Sam Altman a billion of Windoze money for a lap dance?

c’mon #tech #journalism. DO YOUR JOBS!

Load average 5d ago

@blogdiva Sam Altman getting down on Satya Nadella was not a mental image I wanted or expected to have visit my brain.

Hope I can find the strong herb to smudge it out again.

Tyrone Slothrop 5d ago

@blogdiva Microsoft remaining true to its nature as a law firm that happens to also employ some software developers

quangobaud 5d ago

I read it and tooted about it at least a month before it went into effect.

derptron 5d ago

@blogdiva Huh. AI is as much a developer as Fox is news. Interesting.

@blogdiva These are the terms of use for individuals using Copilot. They presumably have a different ToS for corporate use, but I haven’t personally seen it.

Obbie King 5d ago

@blogdiva Saying it's "for entertainment only" is a legal CYA line. Note the rest of that section: Copilot fucks up, so don't trust it with anything important, and don't sue us if it makes a Very Expensive Mistake.

@blogdiva "For Entertainment" is how Fox News escapes FCC scrutiny and court fines.

Bruce Simpson, Ph.D.4d ago

@blogdiva This is EPIC! Thank you! Please forward to Ed Zitron immediately and of course I keep noticing sloppy journalism on the part of The Register and other mouthpieces lately.

andromeda 🌌3d ago

@blogdiva so like

Microsoft is basically breaking their own TOS by advertising copilot as a tool and shoving it in every app imaginable, of course not leaving out productivity stuff like, oh i dunno, the whole microslop office suite, stuff definitely used just for entertainment

@blogdiva "You may stop using Copilot at any time. If you want to close your Microsoft Account, please see the Microsoft Services Agreement."
if i want to remove copilot from my work O365 account i have to close my account? yeah thanks microslop

Simon Flett 3d ago

@foobarry @blogdiva corporate-speak for like it or fuck off.

Matt Palmer 3d ago

@blogdiva if I do not find copilot entertaining, am I entitled to compensation?

@womble @blogdiva Or at the very least shut it off?

Dave á Jus 3d ago

@blogdiva
I have seen no ill effects from this and it's given me somewhat enhanced confidence, security & performance.
https://github.com/zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI

Someone's Chief Legal Counsel had a heart-to-heart with them.

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦3d ago

@johnzajac someone’s chief legal counsel needs to be fucking fired. it’s such a cheap and lazy cop-out. sure it worked for FOXNews, but when you’re a publicly traded company pumping your stock with bets on a stochastic parrot, that shit ain't gonna fly outside USA. am not a lawyer but i just can't believe they posted that. it has to be an example of malicious compliance. there’s no other explanation. this may be their lawyers fuck you to Nadella.

We agree. But I do think "this is only for entertainment" is a pretty rock-solid carte-blanche in liability stuff.

Where it gets tricky is how MSFT has *advertised* clearly indicates that Copilot is a productivity tool, not for entertainment.

Which means this is a hail mary because MSFT can see a future where they have multiple class actions against them bc of Copilot.

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦3d ago

@johnzajac the more i think about it, the more sense it makes to look at those TOS as malicious compliance exactly for your last point. they probably spent years telling Nadella not to do it the way he did and now they have to clean the mess. the class action lawsuits from investors alone should be popcorn worthy.

If any of us can afford popcorn

Thereverend4253 3d ago

@blogdiva Wait, theyre using the Fox News approach? Outstanding 😂

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦3d ago

@thereverend4253 right?!?!? it just occurred to me those TOS have to be malicious compliance by Microslop’s legal department. there’s no other explanation. they probably spent years telling Nadella, don't do it. then he did slop Copilot on everything, thinking he was outsmarting them. now that it backfired spectacularly, they have to clean his mess.

the more i think about it, the more convinced i am this is their “fuck you, we told you so” to Nadella.

Thereverend4253 3d ago

@blogdiva It wouldn't shock me. As my best friend says: who woulda thunk a cloud ding dong would do this?

At least Ballmer was hilarious to see from sideline, probably toxic up close and personal though.

I'm all too familiar with MS doing that kind of stuff and don't get me started with complete breakdown in quality of even CU patches. My god, every patch cycle of product I'm SME in breaks something fundamental.

txerren 🇵🇸3d ago

@blogdiva nobody reads anything anymore

Anything flies.

Jean-Baptiste "JBQ" Quéru 3d ago

@blogdiva MSFT does something funny about ownership of the output: you have to promise MSFT that you own all the rights to the output, before you use the service.

Mensch, Marina 2d ago

@blogdiva Just like all MS Product. For fun only. No risk, no fun. High risk, much fun 😈

Mensch, Marina 2d ago

@blogdiva I wonder how many offices public and private were looking for fun entertainment software, when they bought a MS Licence.