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!

@blogdiva

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

@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.

@blogdiva

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.

@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.

@blogdiva

If any of us can afford popcorn