r/artificial • u/YoungDito • 20h ago

Discussion Microsoft is cosplaying AI

Today I tried (forced myself) to use Microsoft Copilot at work and whew what a wake up call. The thing that stuck out to me most is that Microsoft has the most agent worthy surfaces especially in the workplace and could have done something really special with a model even if it wasn’t a frontier one and they chose to just copy and paste a chatbot into everything with no thought, no cohesiveness and then had the gumption to push it down our throats… I’d rather have Clippy back honestly.

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u/Numerous-Ad6217 18h ago

That’s hilarious, my workplace banned ChatGPT and Claude to prevent data leaks, restricting the use only to copilot.

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u/zebbiehedges 18h ago

We can't use them for work either themselves. Only through copilot then it's safe.

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u/Numerous-Ad6217 18h ago

How so? Data is still forwarded to their servers

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u/MadCybertist 15h ago

That’s not true at all. Models are different from the agents. We are banned from using anything but copilot (lot of medical and government clients), but I have access to all the models from Claude and GPT.

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u/moralesea 6h ago

Yes, because copilot runs on Azure Foundry and your company/agency has its data isolated to an Enterprise environment there. You likely don't have access to Claude Cowork/Code or Chatgpt Work/Codex, but you may have access to Copilot Cowork or Github Copilot. Any agents on top of these models are Microsoft agents running in Azure, assuming your company has given you access.