Co-pilot is automatically creating descriptions of Sharepoint pages, causing potentially misleading info to appear in summaries, emails, tiles, etc...

Posted by man__i__love__frogs@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 4 comments

We are full on co-pilot and at some point a feature was enabled. If you create a Sharepoint Page, co-pilot will automatically generate a description under Page Details.

This description then goes in email summaries of news posts and tile views and things like that.

We've had a couple instances of this summary being inaccurate, or worded poorly around a sensitive topic. Wondering if anyone has come across this and know how to disable that specific feature.

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dedjedi@reddit

Are you telling me that the feature marked as, for entertainment only, is providing entertainment?

Working as intended, ticket closed.

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You probably need to look at a staging environment or something to preview what is coming out next. There should hopefully be some feature flags or something you can automated to detect new feature sets and auto turn them off if enabled by default until you have tested them in development and staging before rolling them out corporate wide.

If you are using the managed Sharepoint there might not be much you can do unless there is a way to turn it off.

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fdeyso@reddit

These “features that no one asked for” are usually announced in Ms365 admin page / Message Center.

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manilove__frogs@reddit (OP)

They are also lacking details. "Unlock the ability to write pages with AI" might be the announcement, with no specific mention of each feature or whether or not they can be controlled granularly.

A staging tenant to test this kind of stuff is not really feasible. No kind of testing I can think of would have caught something obscure like this. Our marketing team shares "latest news posts" from a Sharepoint news section and someone was like 'hey, I didn't write that paragraph'