“Does Meta think we can’t read?” Meta abandons sketchy commercial terms update.

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“Does Meta think we can’t read?” Meta abandons sketchy commercial terms update.
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Meta在遭遇数周反对后,无限期推迟了商业条款更新计划。该计划原本要求Meta Business账户用户允许其利用Facebook上链接的外部网站内容进行大规模AI训练。法律专家曾警告,条款措辞模糊可能使Meta无视robots.txt中的抓取偏好,大量抓取站外内容用于AI训练。由于几乎所有新闻出版商都拥有Facebook页面,此举可能帮助Meta规避数百万

After weeks of backlash—and a failed attempt to quell it—Meta has indefinitely delayed plans to update its commercial terms and require Meta Business account users to allow extensive AI training on external websites linked on Facebook.

"We're pausing the ‌changes ⁠as we continue to engage with stakeholders and ​take ​our ⁠time to get this right. ​In the ​meantime, ⁠our existing terms remain in ⁠effect," a Meta spokesperson told Reuters.

Soon after Meta notified business account holders of the upcoming changes, legal experts warned Nieman Lab that the vague language could allow the company to ignore scraping preferences specified in robots.txt files and exhaustively crawl vast amounts of off-Facebook content for AI training. Since virtually every news publisher has a Facebook page, Nieman Lab sounded the alarm that Meta could potentially avoid millions in licensing fees if the TOS update happened as planned.

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原文: “Does Meta think we can’t read?” Meta abandons sketchy commercial terms update. (2026-11-06T17:43:02)
作者: Ashley Belanger 分类: 科技
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