Microsoft's 'optional' Connected Experiences enable Microsoft to use Excel and Word files to train its AI technology, but it is possible to turn this feature off.

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.

Heads up: Microsoft Office, like many companies in recent months, has slyly turned on an "opt-out" feature that scrapes your Word and Excel documents to train its internal AI systems.

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 ...