Meta pauses commercial terms that would let it scrape business sites for AI training
404 Media · rss · 2026-11-09
In this 404 Media newsletter: Meta has paused a planned update to its commercial terms of use that would have required business accounts to let Meta "use any content from such domains, web pages, or URLs to provide, develop, improve, research, train" its products — effectively scraping customer websites as generative AI training data. After backlash from journalists and users, the change (first set for Oct 30, pushed to Nov 20) is now on hold entirely.
Also covered: the UK's new vague pornography law took effect, risking up to 5 years in prison for privately recorded consensual content, with platforms like Clips4Sale purging creators' videos en masse; and archaeologists found the oldest direct evidence (2,800 years) of psychoactive cannabis use in a Siberian tomb.
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