Microsoft: Copilot is for entertainment purposes only
Anthropic does a somewhat similar thing. If you visit their ToS (the one for Max/Pro plans) from a European IP address, they replace one section with this: Non-commercial use only. You agree not to use our Services for any commercial or business purposes and we (and our Providers) have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity. It’s funny that a plan called “Pro” cannot be used professionally. – Source
I’m sick every time something requires me to sign another ToS. No, I don’t agree with your corporate bullshit. Usually, if I run into ToS, especially a sophisticated one, my mood automatically switches to anonymous mode, or I just leave.
I can’t shake the feeling that big tech, cloud AI, and all that are a disaster, just like social media rot. At the core, both AI and digital community are great ideas, but they are often packaged and delivered to the market by greedy, manipulative assholes, which in the end just leaves so much pollution.
llama.cpp / Hugging Face / tuned open-weight models — that is much closer to the real thing. If it is USA corporate ToS junk, no matter how big and sell trained it is, then it should be used only in a hard sandboxed setup and as anonymously as possible. They have grown to used to spying on everything, openly selling your private data, and doing other dark shit.
Don’t get me wrong, not everything made in the USA is bad. It is just that their reputation for blindly chasing profit above everything else, after so many years of it, speaks louder than anything. I really don’t trust anything closed-source coming from there. Small USA companies – probably you can try, big ones – red flag, corporate cloud – very red red flag.
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