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@gothburz Truth is such a great thing. People just prefer not to bother with it though.

I am the Vice President of Output Accountability at Microsoft. I report to nobody with that title because the title did not exist until I created it. The title is necessary. The outputs are not accountable to anyone. Someone should be. Our Terms of Service for Copilot include the phrase "for entertainment purposes." I wrote that language. Not personally. I approved the deck that approved the committee that approved the language. The language says the outputs "may not be accurate." The language says the user is "solely responsible" for whatever the outputs do. We charge $30 a month. Entertainment is the word we use for things we sell but do not stand behind. The customer types a prompt. The product generates a response. The response may be correct. It may not. The Terms of Service do not distinguish between these outcomes. Both are entertainment. That is entertainment. JPMorgan uses Copilot. Accenture uses Copilot. The Department of Defense has a contract. A law firm in Charlotte is drafting client memos with it. A hospital system in Ohio is summarizing patient intake forms. These are entertainment activities. The Terms of Service are very clear. I want to be precise about the architecture. Marketing calls Copilot a "productivity tool." The website says "your everyday AI companion." The enterprise sales deck — the one I have on my desktop in a folder called Q4 GTM FINAL v11 — says "reinvent how your organization works." The case studies say "efficiency." The ROI calculator says "hours saved." The keynote said "copilot for work." The Terms of Service say entertainment. These are not contradictory. They are complementary. The sales language describes what the customer hopes the product will do. The legal language describes what we acknowledge it does. The customer pays for the first. The contract delivers the second. The $30 is the gap between those two sentences. That is entertainment. A compliance officer at a bank in London — I will call her Diana because that is not her name — emailed my team last quarter. She had been using Copilot to generate compliance summaries. A compliance summary is a document that a regulator reads to determine whether the bank followed the law. Diana's team had generated 1,400 of them. She found the "entertainment purposes" clause on page nineteen of the Terms of Service. She called her outside counsel. Her outside counsel called our Legal. Our Legal said the Terms of Service are the Terms of Service. Diana asked if the outputs were reliable. Our Legal said the outputs were entertaining. Diana asked what "entertaining" means when a regulator reads a compliance summary generated by a tool that disclaims its own accuracy. Our Legal said that is a question for Diana's legal team. Diana's legal team is the one that signed the Terms of Service. She stopped emailing. That is entertainment. Accurate is a product feature. Entertainment is a legal position. We do not sell accuracy. We sell a tool that may produce accuracy. If it does, that is a feature. If it doesn't, that is also a feature. The Terms of Service make no distinction. This is elegant. I am told this is elegant. I say this at conferences. I have a slide that says "elegant" in Segoe UI Light, white text on a blue gradient. It gets applause. A product manager named Kevin on the Copilot team sent an email to the internal alias last November. Subject line: "Question about the gap." The body was two sentences. The first sentence asked why the marketing page says "essential" and the legal page says "entertainment." The second sentence asked if anyone had modeled what happens when a customer sues. I replied. I said the marketing page and the legal page serve different audiences. He asked what happens when the audiences overlap. I said we have a process for that. He asked what the process is. I said it is the Terms of Service. Kevin transferred to Azure DevOps in January. His role on Copilot was absorbed into a cross-functional initiative. The initiative does not have a Slack channel. That is entertainment. My team tracks something we call the Confidence Adoption Index. It measures how many enterprise customers integrate Copilot into production workflows. The number goes up every quarter. We do not track how many of those workflows involve regulated industries, legal documents, medical records, or financial disclosures. We track adoption. Adoption is a volume metric. Volume does not have a liability column. I have a dashboard on my second monitor. It shows three numbers: monthly active enterprise users (14.2 million), monthly subscription revenue ($426 million), and customer-initiated liability claims (this field is blank — we route those to a different team and I do not have access). The dashboard has a green header that says "Copilot: Delivering Value." I check it every morning. Two of the three numbers go up. The third number I cannot see. We had 545 comments on Hacker News last week. The thread title was approximately "Copilot's Terms of Service say entertainment purposes only." This is not a crisis. This is discovery. The Terms of Service have always said this. The customers have always signed them. The gap between what the marketing says and what the contract says is not new. It is the product. I do not use Copilot for my own work. My reports — the ones about Output Accountability — are written manually. My team uses Google Docs. I was asked about this once, at an internal review. I said my work product requires a level of precision that benefits from direct authorship. Nobody asked a follow-up question. Entertainment means: we built it, we sold it, we marketed it as essential, we disclaim it as unreliable, and the $30 means you agreed. I was promoted last quarter. My scope now includes the Output Accountability frameworks for three additional product lines. Each one has the same Terms of Service. Each one has a different marketing page. Each marketing page uses the word "reinvent." Each Terms of Service uses the word "entertainment." I have a laminated card in my wallet that lists all four product lines and their disclaimers. I check it before every conference talk. The card is worn at the edges. I do not find this ironic. I find it operational. I am the disclaimer. I have always been the disclaimer. That is accountability. That is entertainment.

@ok_post_guy Government has ZERO incentive to improve anything or do something efficiently. In this case, you DON'T get what you pay for.

Worth pointing out that this is easily the most impressive space mission of the last 30+ years and the prime contractors for the rocket and crew module are Lockheed Martin and Airbus But hey I'm sure spaceX is getting to Mars any day now

@TjordFergesen @JordanSchachtel "We can do things"!... at a cost of $93 billion

@JordanSchachtel Don’t hate. This is NASA saying we can do things. They won’t go solo ever again. Space 𝕏 is the future.

Yes, this will be exciting to witness, but Artemis II has been a historic waste: 1) SLS rocket development: Roughly $24 billion 2) Orion spacecraft: Over $20B since origins 3) Ground systems and infrastructure: billions more It's entirely outdated, and nothing is reuseable.

@SawyerMerritt One of the first things I noticed. Government not very good at most anything.

Difference in quality between NASA and SpaceX’s launch livestreams.

@SoundmindG @MattWalshBlog Nigeria, eh?

@MattWalshBlog Or maybe it’s less about welfare or immigration and more about shifting priorities, budgets, and the fact that space programs got deprioritized for decades does blaming one thing really explain all of that?

The reason we haven’t been back to the moon has nothing to do with your retarded conspiracy theories. The reason is that NASA destroyed itself with DEI while our country bankrupted itself with an out of control welfare state and mass immigration from the third world. Now we spend billions of dollars every year buying Doritos for fat people and providing health care to African immigrants. It’s really not that hard to connect the dots here. You don’t need to invent any cinematic conspiracy scenario or start babbling about how “space isn’t real” like a schizophrenic crackhead. It’s the welfare state and immigration. That’s the reason why we stopped doing most of the cool shit we used to do. The reason is the welfare state and immigration.

@drmarty8 No one is stopping you from moving to North Korea

No capitalism fails when the powerful take home unearned income as from land value increase. Socialism succeeds when the powerful can’t.

@BibleInContext1 Now all you have to do is cite the definition of "sola scriptura" in the Bible. That's how the whole concept works ya know. Chapter verse?

Well, for starters, your first mistake is assuming that Sola Scriptura denies the importance of any and all tradition. How can you Catholics still be so ignorant as to the actual definition of sola scriptura? Sola Scriptura does not deny the usefulness of tradition, instead it teaches that the scripture is the final and absolute authority on all spiritual truth and matters of faith.

@moultano Inferior U.S. cars?? Hardly. Tesla #1 vehicle sold GLOBALLY for past 3 years. China just has CHEAPER cars because of cheaper labor (exploited workers). It's THAT SIMPLE.

Eventually the inferiority of US made cars and the political decisions that keep us from accessing better Chinese made cars is going to be the same symbol of our decline that it was for the Soviet Union.

@DrPlantel Nah... it's indeed selfishness

The number of men who think women should just start having more babies because birth rates are falling is honestly absurd. Maybe wake the hell up and ask why women are opting out. It’s not because they’re selfish, shallow, or “too independent.” It’s because a lot of the conditions around pregnancy, parenting, work, health, and support are a mess. Use your brain…..

@TexasPreacher On the contrary... read your Bible, especially the descriptions of Solomon's temple. Anything used in worship SHOULD be ornate because that's what God deserves! ... and commands!

The early church was marked by simplicity in worship: no images, no ornate vestments, no elaborate ceremonial displays or processions. Those things belonged to the surrounding pagan world with which they were at war with. Eventually Christianity won out, and paganism was destroyed. In later centuries, the devil found a way to bring it back in, this time through the papists. Now we again find pomp, demi-gods, smells, & superstition; we see prayers directed to angels and saints; veneration of images; adoration of the host; and worship conducted with incense, vestments, spectacle, ritual display, etc. These were all practices that had been distinctly pagan. Thus, what began as the simple worship of God in spirit & truth took on forms of the religions that Christianity had once displaced. That's why today, Rome looks nothing like the early church, and very much like blatant old school paganism. (And EO isn't any better. Basically a mysticized version of the above, with the added practice of wood worship.)

@5Solas2 Also Jesus: "pick up your cross and follow me"... to be crucified. Hmmm.. maybe the road to Heaven is SUPPOSED to be hard.

Jesus: My yoke is easy and my burden is light. Roman Catholics: Well I'll fix that!

@autocorrect2_0 Jesus chose St. Peter by hand, and St. Peter ordained his successors. No one ordained Stuckey-the-blogger. See the difference now?

To carry over your logic to St Peter, Why would we listen to a former fisherman to understand the Christian faith, Christopher? It’s the Holy Spirit that guides individuals into all truth. Not seminary. Not the church they belong to. Not a robe or a hat. Not a title. The Holy Spirit.

@aldatweets Yes.. and subsidizing 40% of corn grown to make ethanol. End this madness.

Maybe the craziest thing about the vanishing cost of green energy is that we're still fighting oil wars.

@texasrunnerDFW Nothing stops this train.

This has been going on for 30+ years No one does anything about it

@MoreBirths "America is dying, but looks good next to other countries that are dying faster".

America's demographic situation is grim, with 2/3 of counties having more deaths than births. But compared to the other developed countries, America's outlook is pretty good. Most of Europe and East Asia are in overall population decline already.

@_enachan1190 I do

No one actually cares about your suffering

@RevivedThoughts Uh, protestants didn't appear until 15 centuries after Jesus started His Church. But go ahead and consider that as "on protestants side". I'll take the other side of that argument.

Church history is on the protestants side. But we have to actually teach it.

@dilanesper Not the tens of thousands of dead citizens. The U.S. and Israel ended the mass killings. You want cheap fuel for your car? .. get an electric vehicle and solar on your house.

@PEnumberTwo they still live under theocracy now

we were FINE before we attacked Iran. We had it good. Now we've made ourselves poorer, over a terrible speculative geopolitical theory

@LizzieMarbach @muhowastaken Leviticus introduces us to the Day of Atonement, in which rituals were performed as acts of penance.. long before Jesus was born. Protestants like Lizzie claim to know the Bible, and their arrogance is sinful. Lizzie should repent.

@muhowastaken No humans can atone for their sins by doing acts of penance. Only Jesus Christ’s blood can atone for our sin.

This is completely foreign to biblical Christianity.