Meta 删除商业条款中可被解读为允许抓取新闻网站训练 AI 的措辞

The Verge：AI· Terrence O’Brien·2026-10-17 23:04· 38 分钟前AI 评分61

Meta removes language that may have allowed it to scrape news sites

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Meta 在引发争议后更新商业条款，删除了被专家解读为允许抓取新闻等内容训练 AI、并覆盖 robots.txt 限制的措辞。康奈尔法学教授 James Grimmelmann 等曾如此解读该条款，Meta 发言人 Daniel Roberts 回应称相关条款只适用于广告和商业产品，Meta 使用网页爬虫的方式没有变化，更新不会赋予 Meta 覆盖内容方偏好的新权利。

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Language that experts say allowed the scraping of news sites to train its AI has been removed from Meta’s terms.

Language that experts say allowed the scraping of news sites to train its AI has been removed from Meta’s terms.

by Terrence O'Brien

Oct 17, 2026, 3:04 PM UTC

Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge

Terrence O'Brien

is the Verge’s weekend editor. He’s covered the tech industry for over 18 years and knows a thing or two about synths.

After backlash, Meta is updating its terms again to remove language that suggested it could scrape content from sites, including news sites, to train its AI. Specifically, the following language no longer appears on the commercial terms page:

… Meta may use any content from such domains, web pages, or URLs to provide, develop, improve, research, train, and maintain the integrity of, the Meta Company Products, services, and features provided under these Commercial Terms and any other applicable supplemental terms.

Many, including Neiman Lab and James Grimmelmann, a professor of digital and information law at Cornell, interpreted it as an attempt to give Meta the right to use content scraped from sites to train its AI products for free and supersede blocking instructions in a site’s robots.txt file.

Andy Stone, Meta’s vice president of communications, and spokesperson Daniel Roberts pushed back, saying that “There is no change to how Meta uses web crawlers; any suggestion to the contrary is false.” Today’s update to its terms and a new statement go further, removing the controversial language entirely. Roberts said in a follow-up statement to The Verge this morning:

“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. It does not change how Meta uses web crawlers. As always, content owners can use robots.txt to signal their preferences. This is not about scraping news sites, and these updates don’t give us new rights that supersede those preferences.”

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