Meta drops the word "train" from its commercial TOS after AI backlash

Meta revised its commercial terms of service language in response to criticism that the original terms appeared to permit large-scale data scraping for AI training purposes. Legal experts raised concerns Meta could use the policy to avoid paying licensing fees to news organizations by requiring business users to share AI training data. Meta's spokesperson confirmed the language change but did not proactively notify users of the revision, potentially creating confusion before the October 30 rollout.

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