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Australia sues Microsoft for forcing Copilot AI onto Office 365 customers (pivot-to-ai.com)
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[–] flowerysong@awful.systems 2 points 5 days ago

Strictly speaking I think they're being sued for not forcing it on their customers. If it had been genuinely a change in service offerings that everyone was forced to accept I think they would have been in the clear, but resorting to trickery instead of force is a no-no.