Meta 移除引发网页抓取与 AI 训练争议的商业条款
Meta removes language that raised scraping and AI training concerns
- 1Meta 移除了商业使用条款中引发争议的表述，该表述此前称可用企业账户网页内容训练和改进其产品
- 2法律专家向 Nieman Lab 表示，该条款可能授权 Meta 抓取企业账户出版商网站内容用于训练 AI 模型
- 3Meta 回应称整合的抓取条款仅适用于广告和商业产品，不改变其使用网络爬虫的方式
- 4背景方面，Meta 去年在版权侵权诉讼中胜诉，针对 Meta 等公司的 AI 版权案件仍在进行
平台试图通过商业条款细则主张商家网页内容的使用权，遇争议后撤回，暴露了 AI 训练数据获取与内容归属之间的张力。
- 影响：依赖平台商业工具的企业，网站内容使用权可能被条款更新纳入平台产品与 AI 训练范围；此类表述的整合与回撤多由外部报道推动，签约方难以主动察觉；内容资产授权边界需要按条款版本逐次核对。
- 参考：可考虑把在用平台的商业条款纳入法务定期复审清单，重点核对内容使用与训练授权表述；值得盘点哪些业务依赖平台商业账户，并评估自有网站内容的暴露面。
- 依据：条款新增与移除情况来自 TechCrunch 引述 Nieman Lab 和 The Verge 的报道，专家意见为受访法律界人士观点，Meta 回应为官方口径。
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.
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.)
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.
“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.”
来源：TechCrunch · AI · techcrunch.com