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  • No, Microsoft isn’t stealing your data to feed Copilot

    Posted on December 23, 2024 at 02:44 CST by • Comment in the Forums

    MICROSOFT 365

    Peter Deegan

    By Peter Deegan

    Social media “experts” are touting a false “fix” to stop Microsoft from using your Word, Excel, or PowerPoint files to train Copilot AI. Microsoft has only itself to blame for customers being suspicious.

    According to this rumor, Microsoft quietly turned on a way to scrape Word and Excel documents to train its Copilot AI system. It then suggests a way to “opt out” of this “new” intrusion. Supposedly, disabling the “Connected Services” in modern Office (File | Options | Trust Center | Trust Center Settings | Privacy Options) will stop Microsoft from spying on documents and using them to train Copilot.

    Not true.

    Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (21.52.0, 2024-12-23).

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