The spotlight is once again on Microsoft data scraping after allegations surfaced suggesting that user-generated content from Word and Excel might be used to train the company’s AI systems.

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.

Despite the claims, Microsoft 365 replied to the thread, stating: “In the M365 apps, we do not use customer data to train LLMs. This setting only enables features requiring internet access like ...

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 ...

Microsoft Word, Excel confirmed ‘safe’ from training. Despite the claims, Microsoft 365 replied to the thread, stating: “In the M365 apps, we do not use customer data to train LLMs. This ...