Meta 删除引发数据抓取与 AI 训练争议的条款措辞
Meta removes language that raised scraping and AI training concerns
Meta 已从其商业服务条款中删除此前引发法律专家担忧的措辞，该条款曾允许其使用商业账户关联网站的内容来提供、开发、改进、研究和训练其产品与服务。Meta 声明相关抓取条款仅适用于广告与商业产品，并澄清此举不改变其网络爬虫的实际使用方式。
原文记录了 Meta 因条款措辞引发 AI 训练数据抓取争议后撤回并澄清的过程，便于读者判断平台数据使用条款的可信度。
Meta recently updated its commercial terms of use, declaring that the company can “use any content from [a business account’s] domains, web pages, or URLs to provide, develop, improve, research, train, and maintain the integrity of” Meta products and services.
According to legal experts interviewed by Nieman Lab, this looked like a “remarkable provision” 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’s AI models. (While Meta defeated a high-profile lawsuit over alleged copyright infringement last year, other cases against AI companies, including Meta, continue.)
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.
“We’ve heard you and want to clarify: the crawling terms we consolidated only applied to our ads and business products, and we’ve clarified that in the terms themselves,” the company said in a statement. “It does not change how Meta uses web crawlers.”
来源：TechCrunch · techcrunch.com