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Meta removes AI training from its commercial crawling terms while preserving crawl access

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Meta separated AI training permissions from its commercial crawling terms, allowing crawl access to persist while restricting model training use.

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Meta revised its Commercial Terms to remove AI training requirements from its crawling clause, per Search Engine Journal. The change permits Meta to continue crawling sites associated with business users while severing the link between crawl access and the right to use that content for training AI models, potentially shaping how platforms balance content access with generative AI development.

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