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Meta drops the word “train” from its commercial TOS after AI backlash.

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Meta removed the word "train" from its commercial terms of service after criticism over its AI data practices, but it did not add language committing to respect robots.txt.

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“Meta changes AI scraping policy but won’t add language respecting robots.txt.”
Ars Technica AI, 20 Oct 2026, 20:07.

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