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The change matters less for its wording than for what it signals about training data. Meta's updated Commercial Terms would let it crawl and use content from sites linked to business accounts, including publishers, to train its AI, potentially outside existing licensing deals. Readers should watch whether publishers push back, whether the terms are clarified, and how this compares with the licensed arrangements Meta has struck with other outlets.

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Meta’s new terms may allow it to train AI on news sites for free

The VergeOctober 16, 20263 min read

Meta's new terms appear to give it permission to crawl and scrape websites "associated" with the businesses that use its platforms - including online publishers, according to a report from Nieman Lab. The new terms, which go into effect on October 30th, say Meta can use this outside content to "develop, improve, research," and "train" its AI products. While Meta spokesperson Daniel Roberts says that the company is just "consolidating" its commercial and self-serve ad terms, legal experts tell Nieman Lab that this could allow Meta "to argue its commercial terms supersede other blocking instructions," like a site's robots.txt file. That could … Read the full story at The Verge.

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Meta’s new terms appear to give it permission to crawl and scrape websites “associated” with the businesses that use its platforms — including online publishers, according…

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