For entertainment in Excel...
this post was submitted on 05 Apr 2026
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Surprise twist: I don’t and won’t rely on it for jack shit
Ah yes copilot in the app everybody thinks of for entertainment…notepad.
Ah, the famous "Fox News" defense of claiming you're an entertainment medium but you should totally trust it.
That's complete and utter bullshit. Either stand behind your product or don't ship it universally. Pick a lane. Either is worth using it or isn't.
This wishy washy bullshit paints a picture of an embarrassingly inept organization, is that really what you're going for Microsoft?
Then how come my company just roll this shit out for work? Allstate just walk us through how us co pilot to type our emails. And to use it for note taking.
Because in the end, you, the person that is forced to use various AI chatbot/agent/model/whatever, will be held responsible for anything that happens after one of the 3000 decisions they imposed you to make with no way to check everything turns out to cause the slightest problem. When that happens, YOU were supposed to know that NOTHING the AI tells/says/do is to be expected correct, so it's your responsibility if something's gone wrong.
Already told them I refuse to let AI write my emails or make my notes. Fuck that noise.
If it works, it's thanks to us. If it doesn't, it's your fault.
Yes, that's why it's in Office
A salesman for an AI consulting company made the comment that we don't expect perfection from humans, so why should we expect it from AI? He was smug about it, too, like it was his big gotcha. Joke's on him, I'm the one that talked the bosses out of spending money with them.
we don't expect perfection from humans, so why should we expect it from AI?
If we can't expect better from an AI than from a human, why should we use the AI (other than so you don't have to pay workers)?
“Is your AI accountable for mistakes? All these idiots are…”
That's such a bad argument too. The whole point of technology is to help perfect the output of humans. Why would we buy technology that is known to not do that
"You can get pretty good results most of the time and save money on labor!" Not like our whole business model is focused on expertise and compliance or anything. Surely our clients won't mind a few little mistakes here and there, as a treat.
The neat part is that we can't even claim that they're little mistakes or that there's few of them.
Then why are they promoting it, in a pizza ad, as letting CoPilot handle the spreadsheets. Do they not trust their own product!?
They want your money, not your lawsuits.
Deploy everywhere, trust nowhere. Bold strategy.
Standard fart operating procedure
for entertainment purposes only, not serious use — firm pushing AI hard
Reminds me of these Autopiloting cars LOL
They, do it all by themselves, fully and autonomously and are pushed so hard as well, but you may not rely on them, never take them for serious.
Just like Fox news
What regulatory capture of the FTC does to MFer.
All this shit should be considered false advertising, at the very least.
That was my first thought, they're using the Fox News legal defense
Proposed revision: Do not use Copilot for business purposes.
But also don't look at our advertisements.
Trillion dollar investments, dishing out private nuclear power plants, redistributing water allocation nationwide, using it in every level of every structure of society and it's just for entertainment.
Anyone tell the politicians they bent over like hand worn muppets for a gag or do you think they already know and simply enjoy being treated for the fools that they are?
do you think they already know and simply enjoy being treated for the fools that they are?
You're assuming they aren't willingly participating in screwing over the constituents to line their pockets or g to give lucrative contracts to their friends
they already know, the money acts as lube
If joke, why required shaped?
Are you not entertained?!
It's almost like it's only a data harvesting tool. Why tf should they implement it everywhere for free?
In other words: Snake oil salesman back paddles after the ice he‘s standing on got very thin.
I think you were trying to say "backpedals."
Well, that's if they were on a bicycle, but they're standing on a paddle board over the ice. Why would they stand on a bicycle? that doesn't make sense. Neither does a paddle board on ice, but I already lost track of what the metaphor was about.