Meta removes language that raised scraping and AI training concerns

In Brief Posted: 2:31 PM PDT · October 17, 2026 Image Credits:picture alliance / Contributor (opens in a new window) / Getty Images Anthony Ha Meta removes language that raised scraping and AI training concerns

简讯 发布于：太平洋夏令时间 2026 年 10 月 17 日下午 2:31 图片来源：picture alliance / 贡献者（在新窗口中打开）/ Getty Images Anthony Ha Meta 删除了引发抓取和人工智能训练担忧的措辞

Meta recently updated its commercial terms of use, declaring that the company can “use any content from [a business account’s] domains, web pages, or URLs to provide, develop, improve, research, train, and maintain the integrity of” Meta products and services.

Meta 最近更新了其商业使用条款，声明该公司可以“使用来自（企业账户的）域名、网页或 URL 中的任何内容，以提供、开发、改进、研究、训练和维护”Meta 的产品和服务。

According to legal experts interviewed by Nieman Lab, this looked like a “remarkable provision” that could give Meta permission to scrape the website of any publisher with a Meta business account and use the content to train the company’s AI models. (While Meta defeated a high-profile lawsuit over alleged copyright infringement last year, other cases against AI companies, including Meta, continue.)

据尼曼实验室（Nieman Lab）采访的法律专家称，这看起来是一项“非同寻常的条款”，可能允许 Meta 抓取任何拥有 Meta 企业账户的出版商的网站，并利用这些内容来训练该公司的人工智能模型。（尽管 Meta 去年在针对涉嫌版权侵权的备受瞩目的诉讼中胜诉，但针对包括 Meta 在内的人工智能公司的其他案件仍在继续。）

However, a Meta spokesperson insisted that the updated terms did not reflect a change in the way Meta crawls the web. And now, The Verge reports that the provision has been removed.

然而，Meta 的一位发言人坚称，更新后的条款并不反映 Meta 抓取网络方式的改变。目前，《The Verge》报道称该条款已被删除。

“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,” the company said in a statement. “It does not change how Meta uses web crawlers.”

“我们听到了你们的声音并希望澄清：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对此进行了说明，”该公司在一份声明中表示。“这并没有改变 Meta 使用网络爬虫的方式。”