{"id":3492099,"date":"2026-10-17T21:31:32","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T21:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/17\/meta-removes-language-that-raised-scraping-and-ai-training-concerns\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T21:31:32","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T21:31:32","slug":"meta-removes-language-that-raised-scraping-and-ai-training-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/17\/meta-removes-language-that-raised-scraping-and-ai-training-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta removes language that raised scraping and AI training concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/meta-removes-language-that-raised-scraping-and-ai-training-concerns.webp\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meta recently updated its commercial terms of use, declaring that the company can \u201cuse any content from [a business account\u2019s] domains, web pages, or URLs to provide, develop, improve, research, train, and maintain the integrity of\u201d Meta products and services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to legal experts interviewed by Nieman Lab, this looked like a \u201cremarkable provision\u201d 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\u2019s AI models. (While Meta defeated a high-profile lawsuit over alleged copyright infringement last year, other cases against AI companies, including Meta, continue.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019ve heard you and want to clarify: the crawling terms we consolidated only applied to our ads and business products, and we\u2019ve clarified that in the terms themselves,\u201d the company said in a statement. \u201cIt does not change how Meta uses web crawlers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/meta-removes-language-that-raised-scraping-and-ai-training-concerns.webp\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meta recently updated its commercial terms of use, declaring that the company can \u201cuse any content from [a business account\u2019s] domains, web pages, or URLs to provide, develop, improve, research, train, and maintain the integrity of\u201d Meta products and services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to legal experts interviewed by Nieman Lab, this looked like a \u201cremarkable provision\u201d 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\u2019s AI models. (While Meta defeated a high-profile lawsuit over alleged copyright infringement last year, other cases against AI companies, including Meta, continue.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019ve heard you and want to clarify: the crawling terms we consolidated only applied to our ads and business products, and we\u2019ve clarified that in the terms themselves,\u201d the company said in a statement. \u201cIt does not change how Meta uses web crawlers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3492100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3492099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3492099"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3492099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3492099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3492100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3492099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3492099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3492099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}