Meta gains permission to crawl and scrape news sites to train its AI under new terms effective Oct. 30, 2024.
Read original on The Verge AI ↗Meta's new terms appear to give it permission to crawl and scrape websites "associated" with the businesses that use its platforms - including online publishers, according to a report from Nieman Lab. The new terms,...
Original headline: "Meta’s new terms may allow it to train AI on news sites for free"
Timeline
- October 16, 2026 Meta’s new terms may allow it to train AI on news sites for free The Verge AI
- October 17, 2026 Meta removes language that may have allowed it to scrape news sites The Verge AI
- October 17, 2026 Meta removes language that raised scraping and AI training concerns TechCrunch AI