Meta’s AI could still scrape news sites, legal experts say
The short version
Meta's new terms allow broad data scraping, raising concerns among legal experts despite stated changes.
Key takeaways
- New terms take effect on October 30th.
- Legal experts warn of extensive scraping permissions.
- Concerns exist despite language modifications in terms.
Overall sentiment
MixedWhile there are updates in terms, ambiguity continues to raise concerns.
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- tells Nieman Lab ↗
- told Nieman Lab ↗
- give the company permission to train its AI ↗
- fierce backlash ↗
- such as the robots.txt file ↗
- Terms of Use ↗
- Terms of Service ↗
- Privacy Policy ↗
- Privacy Policy ↗
- Microsoft says its AI tool is better than doctors at diagnosing conditions ↗
- Republican politicians have embraced anti-Indian racism — and it’s costing them votes ↗
- Google tells Android users to update as parts of Canada adopt permanent daylight saving time ↗
- Googlebooks just aren’t ready ↗
- Delta can turn the iPhone Duo into your favorite folding handheld ↗
- Wildwood director: AI is ‘antithetical to everything that we are at this studio’ ↗
- Sure, let’s smoosh SpaceX and Tesla together, who cares ↗
- In Meta’s version of the future, I’ll have my Muse call your Muse ↗
- Advertiser Content FromThis is the title for the native ad ↗
- Tech ↗
- EA is shutting down BioWare ↗
- PHP: The three letters that shut down sites all over the internet today ↗
- Airbnb bans making guests do dishes and take out the trash ↗
- Trump says Sundar Pichai talked him out of renaming the Atlantic Ocean ↗
- Discord now formats Markdown previews right ↗
- The iPhone Duo is a messy, expensive, good time ↗
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