When done right, web scraping is a powerful tool that can give businesses a competitive edge in today’s data-driven world.

The advent of web scraping tools has revolutionized the gathering of trustworthy information, ensuring rapid and high-quality data collection.

Web scraping is the process of using automated software, like bots, to extract structured data from websites.

The company seems to have quietly begun “scraping” AI training data from information people are typing in to its desktop publishing program Word and its spreadsheet tool Excel.

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.