Meta 删去引发抓取与 AI 训练争议的商业条款措辞
Meta removes language that raised scraping and AI training concerns
据 The Verge 报道，Meta 已删去商业使用条款中允许将商业账户域名内容用于训练其产品与 AI 模型的表述。此前法律专家称该条款可能授权 Meta 抓取任何有商业账户的出版商网站内容用于 AI 训练，Meta 回应称合并后的抓取条款仅适用于广告和商业产品，不改变其网络爬虫的使用方式。
Meta recently updated its commercial terms of use, declaring that the company can “use any content from [a business account’s] domains, web pages, or URLs to provide, develop, improve, research, train, and maintain the integrity of” Meta products and services.
According to legal experts interviewed by Nieman Lab, this looked like a “remarkable provision” that could give Meta permission to scrape the website of any publisher with a Meta business account and use the content to train the company’s AI models. (While Meta defeated a high-profile lawsuit over alleged copyright infringement last year, other cases against AI companies, including Meta, continue.)
However, a Meta spokesperson insisted that the updated terms did not reflect a change in the way Meta crawls the web. And now, The Verge reports that the provision has been removed.
“We’ve heard you and want to clarify: the crawling terms we consolidated only applied to our ads and business products, and we’ve clarified that in the terms themselves,” the company said in a statement. “It does not change how Meta uses web crawlers.”
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