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

Meta removed the word "train" from its commercial terms of service after backlash over AI-related scraping, as experts told Nieman Lab that adding language committing to respect robots.txt instructions would help. News groups globally, including the UK News Media Association, the European Publishers Council and the News/Media Alliance, urged regulators to block the terms, with the News/Media Alliance calling for them not to be implemented on October 30.