Meta Accused of Scraping Independent Sites for AI Training Data
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A report from Dropsite News alleges that Meta is scraping independent websites for AI training data, ignoring robots.txt directives. Meta's communications representative, Andy Stone, has not yet responded to these claims. The article highlights concerns about data privacy and ethical scraping practices.
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What’s worse is that this scraping operation appears to completely disregard robots.txt, a control list used to tell crawlers, search engines, and bots which parts of a site should be accessed, and which parts should be avoided.
Andy Stone, a communications representative for Meta, has not yet responded to these claims.
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