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Microsoft announces Python formulas in Excel... which have to get sent to the cloud (techcommunity.microsoft.com)
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Since its inception, Microsoft Excel has changed how people organize, analyze, and visualize their data, providing a basis for decision-making for the flying billionaires heads up in the clouds who don't give a fuck for life off~~the~~line

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[–] just_change_it@lemmy.world 71 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does anyone not think Microsoft is going to use all their cloud data for training language models?

"We promise not to" doesn't seem realistic to me. Proving they used it is impossible.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago

“We promise not to”

Where did you quote this from? I think they won't care, just like GitHub Copilot, or it will be an opt-out feature.