vegeta@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 hours agoMeta grants itself right to scrape content from business customers for model trainingwww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square5linkfedilinkarrow-up1109arrow-down10
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minus-squareBillegh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·10 hours agoI mean, this is fine. The “content” most businesses publish where meta can see it is all sanitized advertising nonsense anyway. This will create for meta the least useful ad generator; assuming that such a thing could actually be useful.
minus-squarecpbsy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·9 hours agoTo be clear, this is not restricted to content posted on Facebook. It’s any content posted on any website owned by the customer.
minus-squaredparticiple@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 hours agoAnd specifically gives Meta the right to create “test credentials” on sites and scrape resultant deep content such as product docs that are only available with an account. This is far more invasive and concerning than traditional site scraping and indexing.(refs: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/10/16/meta-grants-itself-right-to-scrape-content-from-business-customers-for-model-training/5303658 , https://m.facebook.com/legal/commercial_terms_preview )
I mean, this is fine. The “content” most businesses publish where meta can see it is all sanitized advertising nonsense anyway. This will create for meta the least useful ad generator; assuming that such a thing could actually be useful.
To be clear, this is not restricted to content posted on Facebook. It’s any content posted on any website owned by the customer.
And specifically gives Meta the right to create “test credentials” on sites and scrape resultant deep content such as product docs that are only available with an account. This is far more invasive and concerning than traditional site scraping and indexing.(refs: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/10/16/meta-grants-itself-right-to-scrape-content-from-business-customers-for-model-training/5303658 , https://m.facebook.com/legal/commercial_terms_preview )