I'm advising on calls with firms that have existed since the 1800s: their clients don't even want LLMs involved in output, regardless of who's hosting what. Co

I'm advising on calls with firms that have existed since the 1800s: their clients don't even want LLMs involved in output, regardless of who's hosting what. Companies that don't play fast and loose are not using LLMs yet. They use "old school" ML at most with much narrower scope because at this point it's simply less of a liability. You seem to think I'm underestimating what Azure's name adds to OpenAI: I fully understand how bureaucratic organizations work off vibes under the guise of name recognition and my point is I simply have no respect for it. If you genuinely care about customer data, then the value of being able to sue MS instead of OpenAI is moot. You also probably aren't going to use a service that shouts from the roof tops about not using your data then quietly keeps it for 30 days unless you manually opt-out. You probably don't use some model with unsolved copyright/PII questions. And a million other unknowns > The part that matters is operations - both technical and legal aspects - and this is where Microsoft and OpenAI are independent and have different offerings. You might want to check OpenAI's subprocessor list if you think that they're not the same technically... https://platform.openai.com/subprocessors/openai-subprocessor-list https://platform.openai.com/subprocessors/openai-subprocesso... And Azure's subprocessor list is a superset of that list, not a subset.