Policy · Updated 23 Oct, 02:02 am IST
Experts: Meta terms may still let company scrape news sites
Why it matters for readers: It shows why the exact wording in platform terms matters for who can use online content to build AI.
- Meta's original business terms said it could use content from business-associated websites to ‘develop, research’ and ‘train’ its products, effective October 30.1
- After backlash from publishers, Meta removed explicit language saying it would ‘train’ its products with scraped content.1
- Legal experts warn the revised terms still allow Meta to use scraped content to develop products and may not restrict scraping of entire sites.1
- Cornell law professor James Grimmelmann said the language about sites ‘associated with your products or services’ could let Meta argue it can scrape whole sites despite blocking signals like robots.txt.1
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