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I don't think it's silly. Whatever Copilot says, is said by Microsoft too, by extension. And so, it makes sense for Microsoft to not make themselves liable for whatever people make their product spit out. Especially after happenings like this:

"Microsoft's AI Twitter bot goes dark after racist, sexist tweets"

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-microsoft-twitter-bot-idU...



> Whatever Copilot says, is said by Microsoft too, by extension.

Whatever text I write in Word, is written by Microsoft too, by extension?

*not*


Of course not. But if Word would underline a word of your and offer an offensive correction, that'd be similar.


What if you misspelled an offensive word?

Maybe clippy could popup and say "it looks like you are writing hate speech" and offer some suggestions.


It could, but Word didn't want you to write offensively for quite some time now. I remember being a teenager and just poking at the Word 97, and it was promptly telling me that "you shouldn't write like that" or something similar.




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