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Meta has tweaked its business terms to remove language suggesting that it could freely train its AI models on news sites, like The Verge<\/em> \u2014 but legal experts say these changes aren\u2019t enough to address their concerns. \u201cThis does nothing to restrict the \u2018associated with your products or services\u2019 [language] that would let Meta scrape entire sites,\u201d James Grimmelmann, a professor of digital and information law at Cornell Law School, tells Nieman Lab<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Initially, Meta\u2019s new terms for business accounts appeared to give the company permission to train its AI<\/a> on news sites. The terms, which go into effect October 30th, stated that Meta \u201cmay use any content\u201d from the websites associated with a business account to \u201cdevelop, research\u201d and \u201ctrain\u201d Meta\u2019s products. At the time, legal experts told Nieman Lab<\/a> that this could allow Meta \u201cto argue its commercial terms supersede other blocking instructions,\u201d such as the robots.txt file<\/a> that has historically told scrapers (including search engines like Google) what they are allowed to crawl.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Following fierce backlash<\/a> from the publishing industry, Meta removed language saying it would \u201ctrain\u201d its products with scraped content. But the tweaks might not be enough to rule out that possibility. \u201cThe revised version of the new terms still allows Meta to use that scraped content to develop any \u2018business product.\u2019 That doesn\u2019t seem to be a defined term, and presumably Meta is developing AI business products. I think \u2018develop\u2019 is broad enough to include \u2018train,\u2019\u201d Matt Topic, a media and intellectual property attorney at Loevy & Loevy, tells Nieman Lab.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Meta has maintained that its new terms aren\u2019t designed to scrape news content for free. In a statement to The Verge<\/em> today, Meta spokesperson Daniel Roberts reiterated that \u201ccontent owners can use robots.txt to signal their preferences,\u201d adding that the update \u201cis not about scraping news sites, and these updates don\u2019t give us new rights that supersede those preferences.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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