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Meta's commercial terms had included language that could be read as permitting it to use content from business account domains to train AI models, and the company has since removed that provision. Meta says the clause only covered its ads and business products and did not alter its web crawling practices, so the practical scope of its training data use remains unclear. For AI readers, the episode shows how terms-of-service wording can determine whether publisher content is available for model training, and why the scope of such clauses matters.
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Meta removes language that raised scraping and AI training concerns

TechCrunch1 min read

A Meta spokesperson insisted that the updated terms did not reflect a change in the way Meta crawls the web.

Meta recently updated its commercial terms of use, declaring that the company can “use any content from…

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