After Office Software Outage, Microsoft Faces Allegations of Data Scraping in Word and Excel Reports that the tech giant is taking user data through its best known business software to train its ...

The latest claims stem from an X post by @nixCraft, who accuses Microsoft of turning on an opt-out feature that automatically scrapes Word and Excel documents for AI training.

Microsoft quietly rolled out its Connected Experiences feature last month that allows it's AI tool to access user's data to provide design, grammar and editing suggestions.

The latest claims stem from an X post by @nixCraft, who accuses Microsoft of turning on an opt-out feature that automatically scrapes Word and Excel documents for AI training.

Pro Microsoft hits back at claims AI data scraping was sneakily turned on in Word, Excel News By Craig Hale published November 27, 2024 ...