Meta removes language that may have allowed it to scrape news sites
Meta removes language that may have allowed it to scrape news sites
Meta 删除了可能允许其抓取新闻网站的条款。
Language that experts say allowed the scraping of news sites to train its AI has been removed from Meta’s terms.
专家称，Meta 此前条款中允许抓取新闻网站以训练其人工智能的内容已被删除。
After backlash, Meta is updating its terms again to remove language that suggested it could scrape content from sites, including news sites, to train its AI. Specifically, the following language no longer appears on the commercial terms page:
在遭到强烈反对后，Meta 再次更新了其条款，删除了暗示其可以抓取包括新闻网站在内的网站内容来训练人工智能的措辞。具体而言，商业条款页面中不再出现以下内容：
… Meta may use any content from such domains, web pages, or URLs to provide, develop, improve, research, train, and maintain the integrity of, the Meta Company Products, services, and features provided under these Commercial Terms and any other applicable supplemental terms.
……Meta 可使用来自此类域名、网页或 URL 的任何内容，以提供、开发、改进、研究、训练并维护根据本商业条款及任何其他适用补充条款所提供的 Meta 公司产品、服务和功能。
Many, including Neiman Lab and James Grimmelmann, a professor of digital and information law at Cornell, interpreted it as an attempt to give Meta the right to use content scraped from sites to train its AI products for free and supersede blocking instructions in a site’s robots.txt file.
包括 Neiman Lab 和康奈尔大学数字与信息法教授 James Grimmelmann 在内的许多人认为，此举意在赋予 Meta 免费使用从网站抓取的内容来训练其人工智能产品的权利，并凌驾于网站 robots.txt 文件中的屏蔽指令之上。
Andy Stone, Meta’s vice president of communications, and spokesperson Daniel Roberts pushed back, saying that “There is no change to how Meta uses web crawlers; any suggestion to the contrary is false.” Today’s update to its terms and a new statement go further, removing the controversial language entirely.
Meta 通讯副总裁 Andy Stone 和发言人 Daniel Roberts 对此予以反驳，称“Meta 使用网络爬虫的方式没有任何改变；任何相反的说法都是错误的。”今天条款的更新和一份新的声明更进一步，完全删除了这些有争议的措辞。
Roberts said in a follow-up statement to The Verge this morning: “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. It does not change how Meta uses web crawlers. As always, content owners can use robots.txt to signal their preferences. This is not about scraping news sites, and these updates don’t give us new rights that supersede those preferences.”
Roberts 在今天上午给《The Verge》的后续声明中表示：“我们听取了大家的意见并希望澄清：我们整合的抓取条款仅适用于我们的广告和商业产品，我们已在条款本身中明确了这一点。这并没有改变 Meta 使用网络爬虫的方式。一如既往，内容所有者可以使用 robots.txt 来表明他们的偏好。这与抓取新闻网站无关，这些更新也没有赋予我们凌驾于这些偏好之上的新权利。”