The latest claims stem from an X post by @nixCraft, who accuses Microsoft of turning on an opt-out feature that automatically scrapes Word and Excel documents for AI training.

I ’ve always used Excel for quick calculations and simple tables. But aside from common formulas and basic data manipulation ...

The latest claims stem from an X post by @nixCraft, who accuses Microsoft of turning on an opt-out feature that automatically scrapes Word and Excel documents for AI training.

Web scraping is the process of automatically extracting and organizing data from websites.

What to know about web scraping Web scraping is usually an automated process, but it doesn't have to be; data can be scraped from websites manually, by humans, though that's slow and inefficient ...