{"id":376838,"date":"2026-04-05T21:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T21:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/376838\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T21:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T21:18:08","slug":"copilot-is-for-entertainment-purposes-only-according-to-microsofts-terms-of-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/376838\/","title":{"rendered":"Copilot is \u2018for entertainment purposes only,\u2019 according to Microsoft\u2019s terms of use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AI skeptics aren\u2019t the only ones warning users not to unthinkingly trust models\u2019 outputs \u2014 that\u2019s what the AI companies say themselves in their terms of service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Take Microsoft, which is currently <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-04-02\/microsoft-hit-audacious-copilot-goals-after-wall-street-input\" target=\"_blank\">focused on getting corporate customers to pay for Copilot<\/a>. But it\u2019s also been getting dinged on social media over <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-copilot\/for-individuals\/termsofuse\" target=\"_blank\">Copilot\u2019s terms of use<\/a>, which appear to have been last updated on October 24, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cCopilot is for entertainment purposes only,\u201d the company warned. \u201cIt can make mistakes, and it may not work as intended. Don\u2019t rely on Copilot for important advice. Use Copilot at your own risk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Microsoft spokesperson <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/news\/copilot-terms-claim-microsofts-ai-is-for-entertainment-purposes-only\" target=\"_blank\">told PCMag<\/a> that the company will be updating what they described as \u201clegacy language.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAs the product has evolved, that language is no longer reflective of how Copilot is used today and will be altered with our next update,\u201d the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/tech-industry\/artificial-intelligence\/microsoft-says-copilot-is-for-entertainment-purposes-only-not-serious-use-firm-pushing-ai-hard-to-consumers-tells-users-not-to-rely-on-it-for-important-advice\" target=\"_blank\">Tom\u2019s Hardware noted<\/a> that Microsoft isn\u2019t the only company using this kind of disclaimer for AI.\u00a0 For example, both <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/policies\/row-terms-of-use\/\" target=\"_blank\">OpenAI<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.ai\/legal\/terms-of-service\">xAI<\/a> caution users that they should not rely on their output as \u201cthe truth\u201d (to quote xAI) or as \u201ca sole service of truth or factual information\u201d (OpenAI).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AI skeptics aren\u2019t the only ones warning users not to unthinkingly trust models\u2019 outputs \u2014 that\u2019s what the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,25242,85,46,134,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-376838","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-copilot","12":"tag-il","13":"tag-israel","14":"tag-microsoft","15":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}