Ancestors

Written by Miguel Afonso Caetano on 2024-11-23 at 14:07

"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. This setting is turned on by default, and you have to manually uncheck a box in order to opt out.

If you are a writer who uses MS Word to write any proprietary content (blog posts, novels, or any work you intend to protect with copyright and/or sell), you’re going to want to turn this feature off immediately.

I won’t beat around the bush. Microsoft Office doesn’t make it easy to opt out of this new AI privacy agreement, as the feature is hidden through a series of popup menus in your settings:

On a Windows computer, follow these steps to turn off “Connected Experiences”: File > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings > Privacy Options > Privacy Settings > Optional Connected Experiences > Uncheck box: “Turn on optional connected experiences”"

https://medium.com/illumination/ms-word-is-using-you-to-train-ai-86d6a4d87021

[#]Microsoft #AI #GenerativeAI #AITraining #MSWord #Privacy #Word

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Toot

Written by El Duvelle on 2024-11-23 at 17:45

@remixtures thanks for sharing.

That's horrible, and I guess illegal in Europe + UK because I don't see it in my settings (I am currently in UK)... Would be good if other countries improved their privacy laws to at least match European ones..

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Descendants

Written by Michael Wehle on 2024-11-24 at 04:05

@elduvelle @remixtures This setting appeared in my Office 2021 here in Berlin and was checked by default.

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Written by Roelant (EN) on 2024-11-24 at 08:14

@mwehle @elduvelle @remixtures

Yep, same here from The Netherlands.

Edit:

Though while the options were turned on by default for me, the linked privacy policies here don't seem to cover AI-training specifically. Perhaps that's where and how the EU-protections are implemented then.

Edit 2:

Ah, nevermind, found it. 😅

Edit 3:

Ah, and the exclusion of content of documents here "because GDPR". Found here

https://support.microsoft.com/nl-nl/office/diagnostische-gegevens-in-microsoft-365-f409137d-15d3-4803-a8ae-d26fcbfc91dd?ui=nl-nl&rs=nl-nl&ad=nl

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Written by El Duvelle on 2024-11-24 at 09:34

@roelant thanks for the additional info, I don't suppose you would have the same link in English?

@mwehle @remixtures

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Written by Michael Wehle on 2024-11-24 at 10:31

@elduvelle @roelant @remixtures

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/office/diagnostic-data-in-microsoft-365-f409137d-15d3-4803-a8ae-d26fcbfc91dd

If you go down to the very bottom of the page you can change the locale to the one you prefer.

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Written by El Duvelle on 2024-11-24 at 11:21

@mwehle thank you!

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Written by K4mpfie on 2024-11-24 at 08:04

@elduvelle @remixtures This thread holds the only important info. Why is it so far down?

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Written by Hegel on 2024-11-24 at 10:42

@elduvelle @remixtures I have not found the setting either (CH).

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