A clause in Meta’s terms and conditions suggested that it could train its AI on any content from domains linked to a business account. It has since been removed.
Meta has again changed its commercial terms to remove a much-criticized passage. It provided that the company could use any content from the domains, pages or URLs associated with a business account to develop, improve, research and train its products. Observers, including Nieman Lab and James Grimmelmann, a professor of digital law at Cornell, saw it as a way to arrogate to itself the right to operate news sites for AI for free, above the blocking instructions written in the robots.txt files.
Initially, Meta's communications department denied any change in the use of its web crawlers. The group is now going further: the clause has been removed and a spokesperson clarifies that these conditions only concern advertising and professional products, that they do not confer any new rights and that publishers can still express their preferences via robots.txt.
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