Meta proposed new terms for 30 October. Businesses would bear AI risks.
Meta's new business terms, due to take effect on 30 October, say its AI features "may make mistakes" and that customers "are solely responsible for and assume any and all risks" from those features and the content they produce,…
Meta's new business terms, due to take effect on 30 October, say its AI features "may make mistakes" and that customers "are solely responsible for and assume any and all risks" from those features and the content they produce, CIO.com reported on 20 October. The terms also make companies responsible for what their agencies and contractors do on Meta's products.
The same terms let Meta use crawlers on websites linked to a customer's products. Meta told CIO.com the crawling terms apply only to its ads and business products and that "content owners can use robots.txt to signal their preferences". That file tells crawlers what to skip on a website. Meta said a clarifying change was coming. CIO.com reported no Meta comment on the AI clause.
Analyst Frank Dickson of Dickson Research said the clause "turns accountability upside down."
The terms are proposed and could still change before 30 October. For a marketing team using Meta's AI to draft ads, the open question is who checks the output before it runs, because this wording puts the risk of a mistake on the advertiser.
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