The company seems to have quietly begun “scraping” AI training data from information people are typing in to its desktop publishing program Word and its spreadsheet tool Excel.

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.

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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 ...