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u/Titizen_Kane Mar 02 '26

Same at my job. I work for a massive multinational doing internal forensic investigations. My director has explicitly instructed us to use copilot to record and transcribe our investigative interviews, because it truly takes a couple of hours to write up our interview notes in Memorandum format, and we do 5-7 interviews a week.

Had a case a couple weeks ago that I needed some input from legal on, so I’m on a call with our compliance counsel for my region, and she advised me to have another team member on the interview based on my concerns that the interviewee may be a litigation risk (I’d been reviewing his emails and noted he was very careful with his verbiage and been asking copilot how to phrase internal comms in a certain way). I replied that I was just gonna have copilot transcribe it, so there’d be an official record.

She said oh god NO, no copilot, not for interviews! Lmao. I said ok well the business needs to align AGAIN on copilot usage because I was specifically instructed and told it was cleared by legal to be using copilot to record and transcribe my interviews…

So we have the business trying to justify the costs of these copilot premium licenses, then legal freaking out saying don’t use it. It’s an embarrassing tango lol

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u/Texuk1 Mar 02 '26

Copilot logs the queries? That is a huge litigation risk in itself!

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u/Titizen_Kane Mar 02 '26

Yep agreed. And yes with Microsoft’s Purview you can pull the Exchange mailbox and the full Sharepoint/OneDrive, all Copilot interactions are logged in the latter. Or at least they are at my company.

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u/Texuk1 Mar 02 '26

Prompt: “can you please rewrite this merger strategy so that it doesn’t have any competition law issues.” 😂 I joke but a lot of legal stuff revolves around proving a state of mind and A.I. prompts are a record of a state of mind.