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Meta Withdraws Controversial Web Scraping Clause from Terms of Use
Meta has removed a provision that appeared to grant it broad rights to scrape business‑account websites for AI training, saying the language only applied to its ads products.
Meta recently revised its commercial terms of use, adding a clause that appeared to grant the company broad rights to scrape any business‑account website for AI model training.
After criticism from legal experts and publishers, Meta said the wording was intended only for its ads and business products and has now removed the provision.
The original language raised concerns that Meta could harvest publisher content without clear limits, potentially affecting copyright and data‑use compliance.
Why it matters for GPU / AI infrastructure
Clearer terms reduce legal uncertainty for AI infrastructure providers, giving GPU cloud customers confidence when building data pipelines that rely on web‑sourced training material.
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