Microsoft Denies Using Word and Excel Data To Train AI Models (tomshardware.com)
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- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/24/11/26/2015232/microsoft-denies-using-word-and-excel-data-to-train-ai-models
- Source link: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-word-and-excel-ai-data-scraping-slyly-switched-to-opt-in-by-default-the-opt-out-toggle-is-not-that-easy-to-find
[1] https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-word-and-excel-ai-data-scraping-slyly-switched-to-opt-in-by-default-the-opt-out-toggle-is-not-that-easy-to-find
Yeah, right. (Score:4, Insightful)
And Microsoft doesn't try to force you into a Microsoft account at Windows Setup / OOBE so they can collect data either. Oh, and they also don't hound you relentlessly even after you set up a local account to log into your Microsoft account so they can collect data. Nor do they attempt to push Office 365 and OneDrive/Sharepoint on you to collect data. No, it's all for your own good, don't you know. Easy backups to the cloud, you know. They'd never use that data for anything . . . nefarious . No, never.
We should also believe them when they say that Edge is just Chrome with the extra trust and security of Microsoft.
Forgive me: I just set up a new computer for someone that wanted to keep Windows on it. The poor bastard.
Re: Yeah, right. (Score:2)
1997 called to remind us that we don't hate Microsoft as much as we ought to.
High Speed Nostalgia (Score:2)
Anyone remember way back when key-loggers were considered a bad thing?
SHOCKING! (Score:2)
Microsoft does something anti-user. This is completely unheard of! Are we sure this is about Microsoft? They're always such altruistic people over there.
of course! (Score:5, Funny)
> officials stated via Twitter that document data is not used for AI training
Well if they were confident enough to post that message on twitter, that's all the proof I need!
Re: of course! (Score:3)
Users ticked ok on the fact that 'services agreement grants the company rights to use customer content.'
Why would anyone agree with such a contract? All mindlessly numb by the flood on endless TOS and EULA?
Now step back for a second. Read what you are asked to agree with. And consider.
And yes, though they do not take priority over the law, these are legal contracts people sign off on every day.
Re: of course! (Score:3, Informative)
TOS are incredibly long and contain legal terms that are sometimes subtly and often completely different from the accepted common meaning of the same words. They're not intended to be able to read by most of the people have to sign them to get access to the product.