Meta recently updated its commercial terms of use, declaring that the company can \u201cuse any content from [a business account\u2019s] domains, web pages, or URLs to provide, develop, improve, research, train, and maintain the integrity of\u201d Meta products and services.<\/p>\n
According to legal experts interviewed by Nieman Lab<\/a>, this looked like a \u201cremarkable provision\u201d that could give Meta permission to scrape the website of any publisher with a Meta business account and use the content to train the company\u2019s AI models. (While Meta defeated a high-profile lawsuit over alleged copyright infringement<\/a> last year, other cases<\/a> against AI companies, including Meta, continue.)<\/p>\n However, a Meta spokesperson insisted<\/a> that the updated terms did not reflect a change in the way Meta crawls the web. And now, The Verge reports<\/a> that the provision has been removed.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve heard you and want to clarify: the crawling terms we consolidated only applied to our ads and business products, and we\u2019ve clarified that in the terms themselves,\u201d the company said in a statement. \u201cIt does not change how Meta uses web crawlers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meta recently updated its commercial terms of use, declaring that the company can \u201cuse any content from [a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":886189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,1282,74],"class_list":["post-886188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-meta","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/886189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}