Meta 删除或允许抓取新闻网站内容训练 AI 的商业条款措辞
Meta removes language that may have allowed it to scrape news sites
- 1Meta 在外界批评后更新商业条款，删除了可能允许其抓取新闻网站内容训练 AI 的措辞。
- 2Neiman Lab 与康奈尔法学教授曾解读该条款允许 Meta 免费用抓取内容训练 AI 并凌驾 robots.txt。
- 3Meta 发言人回应称相关抓取条款只适用于广告和商业产品，否认改变网络爬虫使用方式。
- 4Meta 表示内容方仍可用 robots.txt 表达偏好，条款更新不赋予其凌驾偏好的新权利。
Meta 通过商业条款措辞试探内容抓取权边界，在专家解读引发反弹后删除，数据授权条款正成为 AI 训练的隐性争夺点。
- 影响：拥有自有内容资产的企业需重读与平台的商业条款，确认训练与抓取授权的实际范围；robots.txt 等技术声明的效力依赖平台自觉，单靠它挡不住条款层面的概括性授权。
- 参考：可考虑盘点自有域名与内容目前授权给哪些平台的条款文本；与平台签约或续约前值得把 AI 训练和爬虫授权逐条写明，并核对 robots.txt 与合同是否一致。
- 依据：条款删除为已发生事实；免费抓取并凌驾 robots.txt 是 Neiman Lab 与康奈尔法学教授 Grimmelmann 的解读，Meta 官方否认并称条款仅涉广告与商业产品。
Language that experts say allowed the scraping of news sites to train its AI has been removed from Meta’s terms.
Language that experts say allowed the scraping of news sites to train its AI has been removed from Meta’s terms.
by Terrence O'Brien
Oct 17, 2026, 3:04 PM UTC
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Terrence O'Brien
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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:
… 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.
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.
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. 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.”
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