Meta 删除引发抓取与 AI 训练担忧的使用条款
Meta removes language that raised scraping and AI training concerns
Meta 更新商业使用条款时曾声明可用商家账户域名、网页或 URL 上的任何内容来开发、改进、研究并训练其产品与服务，法律专家认为这可能允许 Meta 抓取任何拥有 Meta 商业账户的发布商网站内容用于 AI 训练。Meta 发言人坚称抓取方式未变，随后 The Verge 报道该条款已被删除，Meta 称合并的抓取条款仅适用于广告和商业产品，并已在条款中澄清，不影响其使用网络爬虫的方式。
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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