Meta removed the scraping clause from its terms
The company retracted a policy update that allowed using content from business domains to train AI models. The new terms now apply only to advertising products.
- Field
- business and funding
- What they did
- Meta updated its commercial terms of use to allow itself to scrape websites of business accounts and use that content to develop and train its products.
- Why it matters
- Legal experts expressed concern that this provision could grant Meta permission to collect data from publishers for AI training, a practice that has previously been the subject of lawsuits regarding copyright infringement.
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