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Copilot is 'for entertainment purposes only', per Microsoft's terms of use
- lateforwork 7mo agoGo to https://copilot.com https://copilot.com and ask a question. You can see from the answer that it is clearly for entertainment only. Three years ago Microsoft was considered a leader for having the foresight to invest in OpenAI. Today they are a laggard.
- myhf 7mo agoOn the contrary, the first companies to acknowledge the new AI Winter will have a big competitive advantage over those still dumping money into the bottomless pit.
- eru 7mo agoMy local ice cream shop has never invested anything in AI. Do you think they'll come out of this ahead?
- debo_ 7mo agoIce cream tends not to sell well in winter.
- dwattttt 7mo agoI've seen the "success" a non-software company has been having, trying to integrate AI into their processes. A hypothetical competitor who chose not to do so would absolutely be coming out ahead right now. I can't say whether this trend would continue, but the answer to your question today is "yes".
- SoftTalker 7mo agoMy local ice cream shop doesn't even have a computer in the building. Well, unless you count the credit card terminal.
- Brian_K_White 7mo ago[flagged]
- tdeck 7mo agoRemember the Long Island Ice Tea Company that renamed to Long Blockchain Company? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Blockchain_Corp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Blockchain_Corp
- airstrike 7mo agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.
- solid_fuel 7mo agoGenuinely curious, what could an LLM even do for an ice cream shop? Checkout already takes less time than scooping a cone, and it's even quicker with cash. Maybe it could surveil the customers and employees? But I think that will lose you more customers than it gains. Generally I would expect the ROI to be negative, like we've seen with most corporate AI projects, so yeah any ice cream shop that didn't invest in "AI" is going to come out ahead of one that poured money into the pit.
- eru 7mo agoThere's more to AI than LLMs.
- trvz 7mo agoOk, so that’s good for Apple. Microsoft is invested heavily in OpenAI?
- holoduke 7mo agoPeople still believing in AI being a temporary thing are the same ones refusing to get a mobile phone in the late 90s. Stating it wasn't needed and just a nice to have.
- gnabgib 7mo agoDiscussion (587 points, 6 days ago, 205 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47587866 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47587866
- weiyong1024 7mo ago[flagged]
- rubiquity 7mo agoAll Microsoft services are for entertainment purposes only, as in you’d have to be absolutely crazy enough to use before a Microsoft sales rep has taken your execs to a steakhouse and strip club.
- jeanlucas 7mo agowhich copilot?
- jimgill 7mo agoTrue .... sometimes it gives funny answers
- LeonTing1010 7mo ago[flagged]
- rvnx 7mo agoEntertainment purposes but we can't have a virtual waifu. They are missing the main market there. https://www.uniladtech.com/news/elon-musk-hints-at-controversial-sex-robot-732595-20250717 https://www.uniladtech.com/news/elon-musk-hints-at-controver... > (Ultimately) "One big step closer to anime girls becoming real," Musk replied: "Optimus will enable them to become physically real."
- fwipsy 7mo agoCongrats, you just found the answer to the Fermi Paradox!
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- Iulioh 7mo agoI can see the right branding: CopePilot
- rvnx 7mo agoCopilust
- Terr_ 7mo agoCodependepilot, as the parasocial story-generator enables and validates pathological outcomes. (Not limited to romance, either.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codependency https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codependency
- rvnx 7mo agoSuch a time wasted finding a product name (·•᷄ࡇ•᷅ ) let's just call it Copilot
- aditya7303011 7mo ago[dead]
- oyebenny 7mo agoPerhaps for most it is. lol
- mullingitover 7mo agoI get the sense that this is the LLM version of the all caps boilerplate disclaimer in every software warranty.
- otherme123 7mo agoI think every sequencing technology I know that is used as a diagnosing help has the disclaimer: "For Research Use Only. Not for use in diagnostic procedures". The sales reps go from hospital to hospital selling their sequencers, and point the disclaimer with a smirk. They are covering their asses.
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- MikeNotThePope 7mo agoWhy is there an AI chat window on my GitHub homepage? I just wanted a list of my repos!
- tech234a 7mo agoThis article is about another one of Microsoft’s Copilot products. However you can disable the AI chat window on the GitHub homepage in settings: https://github.com/settings/copilot/features https://github.com/settings/copilot/features
- Alexzoofficial 7mo ago[flagged]
- delusional 7mo ago> You can't really call something a "Copilot" (implying it's helping you fly the plane) while simultaneously saying it's just for entertainment. It's just very hard to get someone to purchase "Microsoft Clown" in their enterprise subscription.
- geocar 7mo agoI can understand people being entertained by typing rm -rf / The idea that Copilot can do the same, and I can't sue Microsoft for it seems to me a similar kind of entertainment. Unfortunately, my company isn't allowed to purchase entertainment for its employees because we've received advice it is considered payment-in-kind
- gpvos 7mo agoEarlier: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47587866 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47587866 (6 days ago, 208 comments) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47650569 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47650569 (15 hours ago, 8 comments)
- solsafe_dev 7mo ago[flagged]
- trenchgun 7mo agoWhich of the 78 copilots? https://teybannerman.github.io/strategy/2026/03/31/how-many-microsoft-copilot-are-there.html https://teybannerman.github.io/strategy/2026/03/31/how-many-...
- breakpointalpha 7mo agoDoes this mean I can tell my team to stop requesting CoPilot code reviews on my pull requests?
- tvali 7mo agohttps://dev.to/tambet_vli_53f2fdcd17c0e/copilot-is-for-entertainment-2lk6 https://dev.to/tambet_vli_53f2fdcd17c0e/copilot-is-for-enter...