Meta's new terms let it train AI on news sites for free

meta's new terms, effective october 30th, grant the company permission to crawl and scrape websites 'associated' with business accounts that promote content across its platforms. this could give meta access to a wider range of content for training its ai models, potentially bypassing licensing agreements. the terms apply to business accounts using facebook, instagram, whatsapp, and messenger. businesses that don't agree to the terms may lose access to meta's products. meta has recently launched a paid subscription, meta one, which charges businesses to include links in posts and reels.