Meta 删除可能允许其抓取新闻网站内容的条款
Meta removes language that may have allowed it to scrape news sites
Meta 更新商业条款,删除了被解读为允许其抓取网站内容训练 AI 的表述。Neiman Lab 和康奈尔大学法学教授 James Grimmelmann 此前认为,该条款意在让 Meta 免费使用抓取内容训练 AI,并可绕过 robots.txt 中的屏蔽指令。Meta 传播副总裁 Andy Stone 和发言人 Daniel Roberts 曾回应称 Meta 使用网络爬虫的方式没有变化,此次条款更新则直接移除了争议表述。
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Meta 在舆论压力下删除了可能被解读为允许抓取新闻网站内容训练 AI 的条款,读者可据此了解平台条款与内容授权之间的边界争议。
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After backlash, Meta is updating its terms again to remove language that suggested it could scrape content from sites, including news sites, to train its AI. Specifically, the following language no longer appears on the commercial terms page :
Many, including Neiman Lab and James Grimmelmann, a professor of digital and information law at Cornell, interpreted it as an attempt to give Meta the right to use content scraped from sites to train its AI products for free and supersede blocking instructions in a site’s robots.txt file.
Andy Stone , Meta’s vice president of communications, and spokesperson Daniel Roberts pushed back, saying that “There is no change to how Meta uses web crawlers; any suggestion to the contrary is false.” Today’s update to its terms and a new statement go further, removing the controversial language entirely. Roberts said in a follow-up statement to The Verge this morning: