Legal experts say Meta's revised terms may still allow news site scraping for AI training

Despite tweaking its business terms to remove explicit language about freely training AI on news sites like The Verge, legal experts caution that the revised terms still contain broad language, such as 'associated with your products or services' and 'develop,' which could permit Meta to scrape entire sites. These terms go into effect October 30th, following initial language that suggested permission to use any content from associated websites to 'develop, research' and 'train' Meta’s products. Meta spokesperson Daniel Roberts stated that content owners can use robots.txt to signal preferences and that the update is not about scraping news sites.