Sergiu Gatlan reports:
Microsoft has denied claims that it uses Microsoft 365 apps (including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) to collect data to train the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) models.
This comes after a Tumblr blog post claiming that Redmond used a “Connected Experiences” feature to scrape customers’ Word and Excel data for AI training spread on social media.
“Microsoft does not use customer data from Microsoft 365 consumer and commercial applications to train large language models. Additionally, the Connected Services setting has no connection to how Microsoft trains large language models,” a Microsoft spokesperson told BleepingComputer on Monday.
The company also told BleepingComputer that this optional setting has been on by default since it was made available in April 2019.
Read more at BleepingComputer.