为平息批评，Meta 已从将于 10 月 30 日生效的“精简版”商业服务条款中删除了“训练”一词。
Hoping to quell criticism, Meta has dropped the word “train” from its “streamlined” commercial terms of service that kick in on October 30.
上周，法律专家警告称，这家科技巨头广泛的新版商业服务条款似乎授予 Meta 无限期抓取商业主页链接网站的权限，引发强烈反弹。专家在接受 Nieman Lab 采访时表示，Meta 可能利用该政策，要求所有商业用户仅为运营商业主页就共享大量 AI 训练数据，从而规避向新闻机构支付数百万美元许可费。
Last week, Meta faced backlash after legal experts warned that the tech giant’s sweeping new commercial terms of service seemed to give Meta permission to endlessly scrape websites linked on business pages. Talking to Nieman Lab, experts suggested that Meta could possibly use the policy to avoid millions in licensing fees from news organizations by requiring all business users to share a wealth of AI training data simply for running a business page.
Meta 发言人证实，公司在遭到反弹后并未就语言变更通知用户，这可能会在政策推出前进一步加剧混乱。针对反弹，Meta 发言人向 Ars 发表声明，承认了 Nieman Lab 的初步报道，但未提及其后续报道中专家重申的担忧：
A Meta spokesperson confirmed that Meta did not alert users to the changed language following backlash. This potentially only adds to confusion ahead of the policy roll-out. In response to backlash, Meta's spokesperson provided a statement to Ars, acknowledging Nieman Lab's initial report but not its follow-up report reiterating experts' concerns: