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Meta’s updated commercial terms said it could use content from business accounts’ websites to develop and train its products, raising concerns about scraping publishers’ sites. The Verge reports that the provision has been removed. Meta says the crawling terms applied only to its ads and business products and did not change how it uses web crawlers.
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After backlash, Meta is updating its commercial terms to remove language that suggested it could scrape content from sites, including news sites, to train its AI. A passage saying Meta could use content from specified domains, pages or URLs to develop, improve and train its products no longer appears on the commercial terms page.
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Meta’s updated commercial terms said it could use content from business accounts’ websites to develop and train its products, raising concerns about scraping publishers’ sites. The Verge reports that the provision has been removed. Meta says the crawling terms applied only to its ads and business products and did not change how it uses web crawlers.
After backlash, Meta is updating its commercial terms to remove language that suggested it could scrape content from sites, including news sites, to train its AI. A passage saying Meta could use content from specified domains, pages or URLs to develop, improve and train its products no longer appears on the commercial terms page.