Submitted 1 week ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
https://www.thestack.technology/microsoft-is-scraping-word-and-excel-data-to-train-ai-models/
“This can’t be real. It’s unbelievable that they quietly enabled this.”
Who is paying for an office subscription? I know businesses utilize office, but there are several FOSS options that I’m aware of and have used, and I’m not even a FOSS prosletyzer. I even used them in college with zero issues. Individuals shouldn’t even be bothering with this crap.
Who is paying? Enough that microsoft could shut down all active development and still make a net profit for 1000 years.
Wonder whether they would ever scrape vscode or whether they expect that particular cohort may take less kindly to it
They own GitHub…
I use vscode but I’m not on github.
Anyone know an ok editir for C#/Godot on Linux BTW?
yeah, no. looking at how the average person uses excel, this isn’t the greatest idea.
Seriously. I’m embarrassed about most of my spreadsheets. They end up more as notepads than anything…
Should I make a bulleted list? Nah, just throw it in a spreadsheet.
Oh it’s good. AI can’t do complex spreadsheets worth a damn. But making run of the mill bullshit? That’s right up its alley.
breaking nda time
Serious question: is there a way to completely disable this for SharePoint? We searched everywhere and haven’t found options to disable it without wrecking SharePoint for the users.
can@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Misrepresenting the article. Title is “Is Microsoft scraping Word and Excel data to train AI models?” and the site explicitly states “However, The Stack has learned that these concerns are inaccurate, and Microsoft has denied claims that it is feeding private information to large language models.”
They’re open to tips but presently its not actually being claimed anywhere.
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
The article was originally published under "Microsoft is scraping Word and Excel data to “train AI models” which comes directly from my RSS feed.
I don’t agree with the decision to change the title and the whole argument based on a proven liar denial, hence me keeping that original title.
Here is the alternative source that reiterated the main point: Microsoft Word and Excel AI data scraping slyly switched to opt-in by default — the opt-out toggle is not that easy to find
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Did you see it? Did you catch the fnord there? (hint: they slip it in the end there, if you know how they mean: BOGU)
can@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
I’m not saying I trust them, but where do they ask for permission?