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ChatGPT wants to access your OneDrive and SharePoint documents, too.
This makes sense. AI was used to summarize documents or folders of documents. You can only ask it so many times if Spider-Man will beat Wonder Woman in a fair battle. If you are willing to give AI access to your personal information, it would be more efficient for AI to collect and make sense of that data.
According to OpenAI,ChatGPT now supports connecting to your OneDrive and SharePoint document libraries if you are a paid ChatGPT Pro, Team, or Plus user living outside the EEA (European Economic Area), Switzerland, or the UK. Windows Central () ). You’ll need to connect ChatGPT to your cloud and grant it permission to begin poring over documents.
You’ll need to enable ChatGPTās “Deep Research”which searches the web for information. It appears that you can now specify which folders within Microsoft’s cloud service to make available to ChatGPT once and for all. Log in to Microsoft services and click the “down-arrow” to choose either OneDrive or SharePoint. You can also click Connect next Microsoft OneDrive (work/school) in ChatGPT Settings.
In terms of privacy, you are sharing the request both with OpenAI and Microsoft. OpenAI said that “ChatGPT creates search queries based on your prompts in order to locate relevant information within the Microsoft document libraries you have connected and sends these queries directly to Microsoft.”
This should theoretically work similar to Microsoft Copilot, which was launched last year. Microsoft says that the service will only be available to users who have a school or work account. It will also be added to Microsoft 365 subscribers in the next few months. Microsoft says Copilot for OneDrive is limited to five files at once. OpenAI does not specify any limitations for ChatGPT.
The AI world moves fast, and it’s possible that the competition will push Microsoft to do better. ChatGPT’s integration with the cloud looks more powerful for now.
Mark Hachman, Senior Editor at PCWorld
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