Meta removes language that raised scraping and AI training concerns
Meta removed terms language that appeared to allow scraping business sites for AI training.
Meta’s updated commercial terms said it could use content from a business account’s domains, pages, or URLs to develop, research, train, and maintain Meta products. Legal experts told Nieman Lab the wording looked like permission to scrape publishers’ sites for AI training. Meta later removed the provision, saying the consolidated crawling terms applied only to ads and business products and do not change how its web crawlers work.
- Updated terms let Meta use business-account site content to train products
- Experts read the clause as permission to scrape publisher websites
- Meta says the terms covered only ads and business products
- The language was removed and Meta says crawler use is unchanged
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A Meta spokesperson insisted that the updated terms did not reflect a change in the way Meta crawls the web.
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