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.) '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.' Get 50% off a second passCover more ground at TechCrunch's ultimate founder...
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