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Microsoft Word and Excel AI data scraping slyly switched to opt-in by default — the opt-out toggle is not that easy to find (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Scraping Excel? What the hell are they going to do with that data, you can’t just make up quarterly reports.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Frankly, I wonder about that sometimes, given the reports I have seen from some CFOs

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How else would you come up with your financial data?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I throw dice at monkeys then pray they don’t murder me in my sleep.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Sounds like as good a method as any.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

It’s probably the structure of the documents that is most interesting for „AI“ when it comes to excel. Not the bare numbers, but what information goes where and how it gets linked.