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Meta clarifies AI crawler respects robots.txt amid scraping concerns

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Meta has clarified its stance on web scraping for AI training, stating that its Meta-ExternalAgent crawler will respect robots.txt directives. This announcement follows concerns that Meta's updated terms of service could grant broad scraping permissions. While Meta claims increased transparency, some users remain skeptical and advise caution regarding the company's data usage policies. AI

IMPACT Meta's clarification on its AI crawler's respect for robots.txt may influence how other platforms handle data scraping for training purposes.

RANK_REASON The cluster consists of social media posts discussing Meta's policy on AI training data scraping, rather than an official announcement or a primary source report.

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Meta clarifies AI crawler respects robots.txt amid scraping concerns

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COVERAGE [2]

  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · arteesetica ·

    META also says: "content owners can use robots.txt flags to indicate their preferences. The Meta-ExternalAgent crawler (for AI training and indexing) will honor

    META also says: "content owners can use robots.txt flags to indicate their preferences. The Meta-ExternalAgent crawler (for AI training and indexing) will honor it" 🙄 So, on the robots.txt file we need to add User-agent: meta-externalagent Disallow: / to block it. 🔗 Source: https…

    LINKS developers.facebook.com/…/web-crawlers
  2. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · arteesetica ·

    So, a META guy said the info was false and they are just adding more "transparency". Sure, how could we not believe him when it's... META? 🤨 Anyway, here is an

    So, a META guy said the info was false and they are just adding more "transparency". Sure, how could we not believe him when it's... META? 🤨 Anyway, here is an update. META is trying to pretend that is nothing to be worried about this... so BE WORRIED ABOUT THIS! https://www. nie…

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