Meta drops the word "train" from its commercial TOS after AI backlash
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arsTechnica
October 20, 2026 · 13:07
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Meta changes AI scraping policy but won’t add language respecting robots.txt.
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Ars Technica is a website covering news and opinions in technology, science, politics, and society, created by Ken Fisher and Jon Stokes in 1998. It publishes news, reviews, and guides on issues such as computer hardware and software, science, technology policy, and video games.
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