Microsoft on Wednesday denied claims that it makes use of buyer knowledge from its Microsoft 365 purposes, together with Phrase and Excel, to coach synthetic intelligence fashions.
The response got here after some customers identified on social media that the corporate requires customers to opt-out of its “related experiences” characteristic, which they argued was used to coach AI fashions.
“These claims are unfaithful. Microsoft doesn’t use buyer knowledge from Microsoft 365 client and industrial purposes to coach foundational giant language fashions,” a Microsoft spokesperson mentioned in an emailed assertion to Reuters.
The spokesperson added that the “related experiences” permits options similar to co-authoring and cloud storage, and has no connection to how the corporate trains its giant language fashions.
The conversations on social media point out that folks stay involved about their knowledge getting used to coach AI fashions with out permission.
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