Microsoft assumes liability for any copyright infringements its Copilot AI services vomit up

One of the big issues with AI/LLMs is that they're trained on copyrighted materials without permission and the output of those systems can reproduce copyrighted content that you don't have permission to reproduce. To ease that fear, Microsoft has announced the Copilot Copyright Commitment. From their blog post - "if a third party sues a commercial customer for copyright infringement for using Microsoft's Copilots or the output they generate, we will defend the customer and pay the amount of any adverse judgments or settlements that result from the lawsuit, as long as the customer used the guardrails and content filters we have built into our products". Meanwhile, the Github Copilot class action is still happening over in the USA.