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When the contract is purposefully obtuse and hard to understand, that should be a valid legal defense. When it's huge, falls upon people that can't justify a l
by marcosdumay 7mo ago
When the contract is purposefully obtuse and hard to understand, that should be a valid legal defense.
When it's huge, falls upon people that can't justify a lawyer, and keeps changing all the time, one shouldn't even need to claim it. It should be automatically invalid.
- voxic11 7mo ago> Copilot is for entertainment purposes only. It can make mistakes, and it may not work as intended. Don’t rely on Copilot for important advice. Use Copilot at your own risk. Seems pretty clear to me, do you really think people need a lawyer to understand that?
- lazide 7mo agoIf it’s in a locked cabinet in the downstairs bathroom with the ‘out of order’ sign on the door, guarded by a leopard?
- Sharlin 7mo agoSure, if you make that clear in all of your marketing rather than lying your ass off and then trying the "lol we didn’t really mean it" defense.
- jon-wood 7mo agoIf Copilot is for entertainment purposes only then why is https://office.com https://office.com all about how you can use Copilot, and closes with the small print "Copilot Chat in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app is available for Microsoft 365 Enterprise, Academic, SMB, Personal and Family subscribers with a work, education, or personal account." Why would they include a product for entertainment purposes only in the product they sell to large companies for doing work?
- WesolyKubeczek 7mo agoMicrosoft is pivoting to become an entertainment company, the Copilot being the final form of what Microsoft Bob has always wanted to become.
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- andy81 7mo agoThe only thing "clear" about that License agreement is it contradicts all their other marketing about Copilot. So either that document is fraudulent or everyone else at Microsoft is committing fraud daily. Examples from the first search result: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/microsoft-365-copilot-video-tutorials-25a1b328-79be-4e8a-af96-1f894e52bcf6 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/microsoft-365-copi... Support page with ~25 tutorials provided by Microsoft about how to "Create a document with Copilot" or "Create a branded presentation from a file" or "Start a Loop workspace from a Teams meeting". Do you actually believe that creating branded presentations (from Microsoft's own examples) is something people do for "entertainment purposes"?
- NetMageSCW 7mo agoDid Microsoft force you to follow the tutorials and use CoPilot for business?
- adgjlsfhk1 7mo agoBy advertising Copilot as capable of doing something they are guaranteeing the product is capable of it.
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- marcosdumay 7mo agoThere are 1698 words before that phrase. Granted that this one document has a surprisingly clear language, but no, it's still not reasonable. Also, it was changed less than 6 months ago.
- SoftTalker 7mo agoContract language is obtuse and hard to understand precisely because of previous challenges over meaning. There are stock phrasings and clauses in contracts that have established (by precident) legal meanings. That's why contracts seem to be walls of boilerplate. If you just wrote them in "plain language" there would be far too much ambiguity and arguing over what was really meant or implied or agreed to.
- hananova 7mo agoA company acting in good faith could provide both a binding version, and a version in plain language.