Meta removes language that raised scraping and AI training concerns
A Meta spokesperson insisted that the updated terms did not reflect a change in the way Meta crawls the web.
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Meta removes language that may have allowed it to scrape news sites
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Meta launches an open-weight AI model that runs on Macs
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