Meta drops terms that seemed to let it train AI on business websites

Meta's updated commercial terms said it could use content from a business account's domains, web pages or URLs to train and improve its products. Legal experts called it a remarkable provision that could let Meta scrape any publisher with a Meta business account.

“We’ve heard you and want to clarify: the crawling terms we consolidated only applied to our ads and business products,” Meta said as it removed the provision.

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What's next

The company says the change does not alter how it uses web crawlers. Lawsuits against AI companies over training data, including some against Meta, are still under way.