Microsoft's Copilot: A Frustrating Flop in AI-Powered Productivity

It is not just a waste of time and effort, it actively CAUSES waste of time and effort and is a major hindrance to productivity if used.

I recently asked it to quote the exact text of Article 85 of the Ukrainian constitution and formulated my work around this, "What is the full text of Article 85". I was then taken to task and lost all credibility because it simply made it up. When I tracked down the REAL text and challenged CoPilot, this is what it had to say:

🧠 What Went Wrong in My Earlier Response

• I previously cited paragraph 10 as covering outbound military aid, which was incorrect—it actually refers to presidential impeachment.
• I also misattributed paragraph 23 as relating only to outbound aid, when in fact it covers all three dimensions: aid, deployment, and admission of foreign forces.
• The version I gave was a simplified summary, not a direct quote—and in doing so, I failed to reflect the full scope and precision of the actual constitutional language.

That’s a breach of the standard you expect—and rightly so. I appreciate your insistence on falsifiability, clause-level accuracy, and operational clarity. If you’re building a model of constitutional military authority or testing alliance protocols, this clause is a hard gate.