EQUIPThe Verge · 18h ago
Meta’s AI could still scrape news sites, legal experts say
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Meta recently updated its business terms to mitigate concerns regarding AI model training on third-party news content. Legal experts warn these revisions are insufficient and fail to restrict the company's technical capacity to scrape external digital assets.
- 01Meta removed specific language regarding the free training of AI models on news sites
- 02Legal analysts argue current terms still allow data scraping via associated products or services
- 03Revisions do not explicitly prohibit the use of publisher content for future AI development
- 04Corporate leaders should monitor platform terms for potential intellectual property and data privacy risks
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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 - 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 […]