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REGULATION · 1 SOURCE · The Verge AI

Experts: Meta business-terms update could still allow scraping news sites

Meta updated its business terms for business accounts effective Oct. 30; the company removed explicit language saying it would 'train' its products on site content, but legal experts say remaining phrases like 'develop' and 'associated with your products or services' could still be used to justify scraping and using news-site content for AI development. Meta says content owners can use robots.txt to signal preferences and that the update does not give new rights that supersede those preferences.

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COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · The Verge AI

Meta’s updated commercial terms appear to let it crawl business websites and use content to train AI

Nieman Lab reports that Meta’s new commercial terms, effective October 30, 2024, authorize automated crawling, indexing, and use of content from domains “associated” with business accounts on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger; Meta may use that content to develop, research, improve and train its AI products. The terms say businesses that do not accept them may lose access to Meta’s products for commercial use, and Nieman Lab noted this could let Meta access publisher content beyond formal licensing deals.

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