Meta 移除被法律专家解读为授权抓取网站训练 AI 的条款语言——同时坚称自己的爬虫从未改变

“10 月 17 日周六，Meta 删掉了被法律专家解读为授权抓取网站训练 AI 的条款语言——但 Meta 坚称自己的爬虫从未改变。”

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• 2026 年 10 月 17 日（星期六），Meta 从其商业条款中移除了被法律专家解读为「授权抓取出版方网站用于 AI 训练」的语言。按 The Verge（Terrence O'Brien，10 月 17 日 15:04 UTC 发布）：「After backlash, Meta is updating its terms again to remove language that suggested it could scrape content from sites, including news sites, to train its AI. Specifically, the following language no longer appears on the commercial terms page（在反弹之后，Meta 再次更新条款，移除了暗示它可以抓取包括新闻网站在内的站点内容来训练 AI 的语言。具体来说，以下语言已不再出现在商业条款页面上）」——随后是 The Verge 转写的被移除语言（开头带有该媒体自己的省略号）：「… Meta may use any content from such domains, web pages, or URLs to provide, develop, improve, research, train, and maintain the integrity of, the Meta Company Products, services, and features provided under these Commercial Terms and any other applicable supplemental terms.（……Meta 可以使用来自这些域名、网页或 URL 的任何内容，来提供、开发、改进、研究、训练并维护这些商业条款及任何其他适用补充条款所规定的 Meta 公司产品、服务与功能。）」按 The Verge：「Many, including Neiman Lab and James Grimmelmann, a professor of digital and information law at Cornell, interpreted it as an attempt to give Meta the right to use content scraped from sites to train its AI products for free and supersede blocking instructions in a site's robots.txt file.（包括 Nieman Lab 和康奈尔大学数字与信息法学教授 James Grimmelmann 在内的许多人，将其解读为一次尝试：让 Meta 有权免费使用从各站点抓取的内容来训练其 AI 产品，并凌驾于站点 robots.txt 文件中的屏蔽指令之上。）」在移除之前，Meta 就否认了抓取解读：按 The Verge，「Andy Stone, Meta's vice president of communications, and spokesperson Daniel Roberts pushed back, saying that "There is no change to how Meta uses web crawlers; any suggestion to the contrary is false."（Meta 传播副总裁 Andy Stone 与发言人 Daniel Roberts 反驳称：Meta 使用网络爬虫的方式没有任何变化；任何相反的说法都是虚假的。）」移除之后，按 The Verge，Roberts 在后续声明中说：「We've heard you and want to clarify: the crawling terms we consolidated only applied to our ads and business products, and we've clarified that in the terms themselves. It does not change how Meta uses web crawlers. As always, content owners can use robots.txt to signal their preferences. This is not about scraping news sites, and these updates don't give us new rights that supersede those preferences.（我们听到了你们的声音并想澄清：我们整合的爬虫条款只适用于我们的广告与商业产品，我们已在条款本身中澄清了这一点。它不会改变 Meta 使用网络爬虫的方式。一如既往，内容所有者可以用 robots.txt 表达自己的偏好。这与抓取新闻网站无关，这些更新也不会给我们凌驾于那些偏好之上的新权利。）」按 TechCrunch（Anthony Ha，10 月 17 日 21:31 UTC，一篇引用 The Verge 的 In Brief 短文）：「Meta recently updated its commercial terms of use, declaring that the company can "use any content from [a business account's] domains, web pages, or URLs to provide, develop, improve, research, train, and maintain the integrity of" Meta products and services（Meta 最近更新了其商业使用条款，宣称公司可以使用来自[企业账号的]域名、网页或 URL 的任何内容，来提供、开发、改进、研究、训练并维护 Meta 的产品与服务——方括号内为 TechCrunch 自己的插入）」，以及「According to legal experts interviewed by Nieman Lab, this looked like a "remarkable provision" that could give Meta permission to scrape the website of any publisher with a Meta business account and use the content to train the company's AI models.（据 Nieman Lab 采访的法律专家称，这看起来像一条非同寻常的条款，可能让 Meta 有权抓取任何拥有 Meta 企业账号的出版商的网站，并用这些内容训练公司的 AI 模型。）」