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Meta drops the word "train" from its commercial TOS after AI backlash

2026-10-20 · Ars Technica

Meta's brilliant PR move: just stop saying 'train' and hope nobody notices you're still scraping everyone's data for AI. They changed the wording in their TOS after backlash but conveniently won't commit to respecting robots.txt — because why let creators opt out when you can just rebrand the exploitation?

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