TechCrunch AI · 2026/10/18 05:31:32
Meta 删除争议条款，澄清不借商业账号抓取新闻训练 AI
Meta 修改了商业服务条款，删除了此前被法律专家解读为允许其抓取拥有 Meta 商业账号的新闻网站内容以训练 AI 模型的模糊表述。公司声明称该条款仅适用于广告与商业产品，并未改变其网络爬虫的使用方式，旨在回应外界对版权侵权的担忧。
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Meta removes language that raised scraping and AI training concerns
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.”