Meta terms may let it train AI on news sites for free

Meta's new commercial terms, effective October 30th, may let it crawl and use content from websites "associated" with businesses on its platforms, including online publishers, to develop, improve and train AI products, per Nieman Lab. Meta calls it a consolidation of ad terms, but legal experts say it could let Meta argue its terms override blocking instructions like robots.txt.

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