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Meta removes AI training data scraping clauses from terms of use

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Meta has revised its commercial terms of use after initially including language that would have permitted the company to ingest content from business domains and external URLs for AI model training. Legal experts raised concerns that this could have allowed for the scraping of news sites. Meta subsequently removed the controversial clauses, stating that the consolidated crawling terms were intended solely for advertising and business purposes. AI

IMPACT Clarifies data usage policies for AI training, potentially impacting future web scraping practices.

RANK_REASON Company policy update regarding data usage for AI training.

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Meta removes AI training data scraping clauses from terms of use

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    Meta updated its commercial terms of use, originally including provisions allowing the company to ingest content from business domains and external URLs to trai

    Meta updated its commercial terms of use, originally including provisions allowing the company to ingest content from business domains and external URLs to train AI models. Legal experts noted that this could have permitted the scraping of news sites for model development. Follow…

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