Microsoft’s use of so-called ‘Connected Experiences’ has come under scrutiny following claims it collected user-generated content to train its AI models. 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.

Software giant Microsoft is telling the world that it does not use data from Word or Excel for training any AI models.

The setting in question 'only enables features requiring internet access like co-authoring a document,' Microsoft says.