Except there’s no guarantee they’ll be coming from one of their own IP addresses. There’s nothing to stop them from using a residential botnet.
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- cpbsy@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Meta grants itself right to scrape content from business customers for model trainingEnglish4·8 days ago
- cpbsy@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Meta grants itself right to scrape content from business customers for model trainingEnglish21·8 days ago
To be clear, this is not restricted to content posted on Facebook. It’s any content posted on any website owned by the customer.
- cpbsy@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Meta grants itself right to scrape content from business customers for model trainingEnglish52·8 days ago
You authorize us […] to […] create test credentials to […] crawl the domains […] associated with your products or services.
Meta may use any content […] to […] train […] Meta Company Products.
Basically, in exchange for being allowed to continue posting content on Facebook, you’re giving them permission from now on to aggressively scrape your own sites for content to train their models.
To quote a famous Sith Lord: “I am altering the deal. Pray I do not alter it further.”
It’s a Chinese company. I don’t know how explicit they’re being about that reasoning, though.