Meta Removes Terms That Raised Scraping and AI Training Concerns
· Technology · TechCrunch
Meta has removed controversial language from its commercial terms of use that previously stated the company could use content from business account domains, web pages, or URLs to train its AI models. Legal experts had flagged the provision as a remarkable permission for Meta to scrape publisher websites. Meta insisted the updated terms did not reflect any change in how the company crawls the web. The Verge first reported the removal of the specific text. Meta stated that the consolidated crawling terms only applied to ads and business products.
Why it matters
Publishers and creators retain greater control over whether their web content can be harvested without direct consent to train large language models.
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