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That yes button is a license agreement to spy on your professional messaging and there is probably no way to undo it. Go look up what hoops lawyers had to jump through when Word added no opt-out AI. Microsoft doesn’t understand how to make applications for the end user, their only concern is selling cloud compute tokens.
This is incorrect, the license agreement is accepted upon purchase and provisioning to users. You, as a user, clicking through the onboarding tutorial is not the license agreement.
Do you work for Microsoft?
Did you read the eula?
The thing that every reasonable court assumes isn't read and isn't legally binding?
Only for private customers, not for businesses.
But my point was that the information in beetus comment would not be known to most Microsoft employees, but would be known to someone who'd read the license.
ITT people seem to assume that but no one has yet offered any amount of proof. I hope my company isn't relying on everyone clicking "Maybe later" to prevent spying on professional messaging. That would be a huge lawsuit vector for Microsoft if that were the case. And if your company is cool with MS spying on messages, MS is going to spy on messages no matter what you click, and they were already doing it before any click.
It's a work computer and your it team and legal department has already approved usage of these tools. Sure, you do whatever you think is right but your company has already agreed to that license. You are already bound by it through your employment and usage of employer provided tools
My IT department laid out clearly what AI tools are approved, and copilot and chatGPT weren’t on the list.
Great. Sorry for confusing you with my vague "your company did x" in my previous reply. I was trying to refer to the OP commenter I replied to in this thread. If a feature is enabled and provisioned to you, it's largely true that your company has already accepted the license agreement for you to use it. I wish my company didn't shove ai everywhere but many are and as employees (in the US atelast) we don't have any ability to not agree to these terms.