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Meta removes language that may have allowed it to scrape news sites
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Language that experts say allowed the scraping of news sites to train its AI has been removed from Meta’s terms.
Language that experts say allowed the scraping of news sites to train its AI has been removed from Meta’s terms.
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After backlash, Meta is updating its terms again to remove language that suggested it could scrape content from sites, including news sites, to train its AI. Specifically, the following language no longer appears on the commercial terms page:
… Meta may use any content from such domains, web pages, or URLs to provide, develop, improve, research, train, and maintain the integrity of, the Meta Company Products, services, and features provided under these Commercial Terms and any other applicable supplemental terms.
Many, including Neiman Lab and James Grimmelmann, a professor of digital and information law at Cornell, interpreted it as an attempt to give Meta the right to use content scraped from sites to train its AI products for free and supersede blocking instructions in a site’s robots.txt file.