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Meta AI Scraping Dispute With News Publishers
Meta updated its terms of service to potentially permit free AI training on publisher content, sparking immediate controversy. The company now denies that these revisions expand its scraping practices, leaving the legal and ethical boundaries of data usage in dispute.
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Meta denies that revised terms expand AI scraping of publisher content
Meta issued a statement saying its updated terms are only a consolidation of existing commercial and self‑serve ad rules and do not alter how its web crawlers operate. The company says content…
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Meta’s new terms may allow it to train AI on news sites for free
Meta’s updated commercial terms of service, set to take effect on October 30, grant the company broad permissions to scrape websites associated with business accounts using automated software, with…
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