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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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Written by a1ba@$INSTANCE$host$ on 2024-11-23 at 14:21

@remixtures 7 submenus and it has some misleading checkbox title?

Why are you still using Microsoft products

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Written by Renard :bh_s_u: on 2024-11-24 at 20:55

@a1ba @remixtures In the late 2000s / early 2010s, the EU started to mandate that all electronic documents would use open formats. A citizen shouldn't have to buy an expensive licence for a limited proprietary piece of software (try running MS Office on NetBSD?) in order to access public documents. OASIS was to be the norm, and was already ISO.

Then, Microsoft happened, again. They muddied the waters with Office Open XML, played dirty with ECMA then ISO…

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Written by Qazm on 2024-11-24 at 22:03

@renard @a1ba @remixtures It did work for the most part though, governments in the EU did standardise around Open Document rather than Microsoft's formats. They're pushing back against it mainly through defaults and insider lobbying, but they did lose the standards battle here.

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Written by Renard :bh_s_u: on 2024-11-24 at 22:30

@Qazm @a1ba @remixtures afraid not. On practice, while there was a brief moment of lucidity - everything is Microsoft again, and no one seems to give a shit anymore. Just like ni one ever talks about racketiciels any more either.

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Written by Qazm on 2024-11-24 at 22:48

@renard @a1ba @remixtures 😮‍💨☹️

(Admittedly I have an outside perspective. At least in public comms, Microsoft's formats aren't used in Germany as far as I've seen.)

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