Analyst Warns Against Using Microsoft's Copilot AI on Friday Afternoons

Analyst Warns Against Using Microsoft's Copilot AI on Friday Afternoons

As Microsoft has aggressively pushed its Copilot AI, it’s logged more than a few high-profile errors. Copilot has been found hallucinating police reports, exposing secure passwords, and digesting confidential emails — prompting security fears as its use in corporate and government settings becomes more common. Dennis Xu, a research analyst at the firm Gartner, went as far as to suggest that companies using Copilot should ban it on Friday afterno…