Meta 删除商业条款中引发抓取与 AI 训练争议的表述
Meta removes language that raised scraping and AI training concerns
AI 导读
Meta 更新商业使用条款时曾声明，公司可用企业账号域名、网页或 URL 上的任何内容来提供、开发、改进、研究、训练和维护 Meta 产品与服务。
摘要与补充说明
Nieman Lab 采访的法律专家认为，这像是给 Meta 抓取任何拥有 Meta 商业账号的发布商网站、并用其内容训练 AI 模型开了许可。Meta 发言人表示条款更新并未改变其网页抓取方式，随后 The Verge 报道该条款已被删除。Meta 在声明中称，合并的抓取条款只适用于广告和商业产品，已在条款中澄清，不会改变 Meta 使用网页爬虫的方式。
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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.”