“Microsoft’s promise to defend customers from copyright infringement lawsuits stemming from its Copilot artificial intelligence tools likely won’t require a mass deployment of lawyers,” according to a Sept. 11 article in Bloomberg Law titled "How Risky Is Microsoft’s Pledge to Defend AI Copyright Lawsuits?"
Partner Theresa Weisenberger told Bloomberg Law that her clients are concerned about using generative AI, due to the potential for litigation, but end users have not been targeted so far, and they should not be held liable for how companies train their AI machines. That said, she did warn users not to try to circumvent Microsoft’s parameters in ways that “would foreseeably produce infringements,” according to the article.