lemme incake to [email protected] • 1 month 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-square29fedilinkarrow-up1202arrow-down12cross-posted to: [email protected]
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 incake to [email protected] • 1 month agomessage-square29fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink28•1 month agoScraping Excel? What the hell are they going to do with that data, you can’t just make up quarterly reports.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink15•1 month agoFrankly, I wonder about that sometimes, given the reports I have seen from some CFOs
minus-square@jaybonelink1•1 month agoI throw dice at monkeys then pray they don’t murder me in my sleep.
minus-square@lemmylommylink6•1 month 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.