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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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[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 7 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

How else would you come up with your financial data?

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

Sounds like as good a method as any.

[–] lemmylommy@lemmy.world 6 points 21 hours 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.