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Meta Updates Business Terms, Sparking AI Training Fears Among Content Creators
The update lets Meta collect content from business accounts and associated sites to train and improve its products, with no opt-out before Oct. 30.
- Effective October 30th, Meta's new terms allow the company to crawl and scrape websites "associated" with business accounts to "train" its AI products across Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger.
- While Meta claims this update consolidates scattered language, it follows the launch of Meta One, a subscription service charging businesses to post links; currently, Meta can crawl this same content for free.
- James Grimmelmann, a professor of digital and information law at Cornell Law School, noted the terms allow Meta to create "test credentials" to "sign up as a fake user" and bypass registration walls.
- Businesses that refuse the new policies "may stop all access or use of our Products for business or commercial purposes," and currently, there is no option for these accounts to opt out before October 30th.
- Meta has struck AI licensing deals with CNN, Fox News, USA Today, and People Inc, but these new terms provide broad access to a much wider swath of content from business accounts.
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