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Meta grants itself right to scrape content from business customers for model training (www.theregister.com)
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[โ€“] cpbsy@lemmy.world 12 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

You authorize us [...] to [...] create test credentials to [...] crawl the domains [...] associated with your products or services.

Meta may use any content [...] to [...] train [...] Meta Company Products.

Basically, in exchange for being allowed to continue posting content on Facebook, you're giving them permission from now on to aggressively scrape your own sites for content to train their models.

To quote a famous Sith Lord: "I am altering the deal. Pray I do not alter it further."

[โ€“] A_norny_mousse@piefed.social 3 points 2 hours ago

No way this goes through in the EU. Frankly this should be against the law in any country. It's one thing to say "Whatever you do on our platform belongs to us", but it's a whole other thing to do this.

And then they're going to whine about the EU waging war against the US again.

Please let me out of this universe, I'll try a prallel one.