lemme in to Privacy@programming.dev • 8 months agoMicrosoft Word and Excel AI data scraping slyly switched to opt-in by default — the opt-out toggle is not that easy to findwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square26fedilinkarrow-up1202arrow-down12
arrow-up1200arrow-down1external-linkMicrosoft Word and Excel AI data scraping slyly switched to opt-in by default — the opt-out toggle is not that easy to findwww.tomshardware.comlemme in to Privacy@programming.dev • 8 months agomessage-square26fedilink
minus-square@Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilink29•8 months agoScraping Excel? What the hell are they going to do with that data, you can’t just make up quarterly reports.
minus-square@drolex@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilink15•8 months agoFrankly, I wonder about that sometimes, given the reports I have seen from some CFOs
minus-squareDiplomjodlerlinkfedilink7•8 months agoHow else would you come up with your financial data?
minus-square@jaybone@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink1•7 months agoI throw dice at monkeys then pray they don’t murder me in my sleep.
minus-square@lemmylommy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink6•8 months agoIt’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.
Scraping Excel? What the hell are they going to do with that data, you can’t just make up quarterly reports.
Frankly, I wonder about that sometimes, given the reports I have seen from some CFOs
How else would you come up with your financial data?
I throw dice at monkeys then pray they don’t murder me in my sleep.
Sounds like as good a method as any.
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.