Meta’s AI could still scrape news sites, legal experts say
Summary
Meta recently updated its business terms to remove phrases that explicitly permitted training its artificial intelligence models on news websites. However, legal specialists warn these modifications fail to properly limit the company's scraping activities. Experts point out that remaining clauses in the updated agreement still allow the tech giant to harvest complete websites for its digital products.
Meta has tweaked its business terms to remove language suggesting that it could freely train its AI models on news sites, like The Verge - but legal experts say these changes aren't enough to address their concerns. "This does nothing to restrict the 'associated with your products or services' [language] that would let Meta scrape entire sites," James Grimmelmann, a…
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