Meta 因出版方反对推迟新商业条款生效
Meta delays new business terms after publisher pushback on AI scraping
Meta 将新商业条款的生效时间从原定的 10 月 30 日推迟到 11 月 20 日，此前出版方担忧该条款允许 Meta 抓取新闻网站内容用于 AI 训练。Meta 发言人 Daniel Roberts 称，推迟是为了有更多时间向合作伙伴说明变化，并解释 Meta 如何使用网络爬虫、内容所有者仍可通过 robots.txt 表达偏好。News/Media Alliance 曾致信 Meta CEO 扎克伯格要求修改条款，欧盟和英国的广告商与出版方也呼吁监管机构介入。
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Meta is delaying the enforcement of its new business terms after publishers raised concerns that they could allow the company to scrape news sites for AI training, as reported earlier by Fast Company . In a statement to The Verge , Meta spokesperson Daniel Roberts says the terms will go into effect on November 20th “to allow more time for us to explain to our partners and stakeholders what’s changing and what’s not.”
The business terms , which were originally supposed to go into effect on October 30th, appeared to give Meta permission to freely scrape the new sites that use its platforms, while using the material for AI training. Though Meta updated these terms to remove language about “training” its products, legal experts argued the change is not enough to rule out the possibility.
The News/Media Alliance sent a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday, demanding that the company revise its business terms over concerns that they would cause “severe harm” to publishers. Digital advertisers and publishers in the European Union and the UK also urged regulators to force Meta to halt its new terms.
In response to this backlash, Meta is now delaying its new terms entirely. Roberts says the delay will give Meta more time to lay out “how Meta uses web crawlers and the fact that content owners will still be able to use robots.txt to signal preferences,” referring to the file that signals to scrapers whether they can crawl a site.