Meta removes language that may have allowed it to scrape news sites
Summary
Meta has updated its terms of service to remove controversial wording regarding the scraping of external content. The adjustment addresses criticism by eliminating phrases that indicated the company might harvest material from news websites and other domains to train its artificial intelligence models.
After backlash, Meta is updating its terms again to remove language that suggested it could scrape content from sites, including news sites, to train its AI. Specifically, the following language no longer appears on the commercial terms page: … Meta may use any content from such domains, web pages, or URLs to provide, develop, improve, research, train, and maintain the…
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