Meta’s new commercial terms say if its AI makes a mistake, it will legally be the customer’s fault

Meta's updated commercial terms, effective October 30, shift legal liability for AI mistakes to enterprise customers, making them responsible for any errors and those of partners or contractors. The terms also grant Meta broad rights to scrape content from domains associated with its products and to use any content connected to Meta accounts for advertising and business products. Consultants highlight web scraping, data ownership, and AI liability transfer as major concerns. Meta later clarified that scraping terms only apply to its ads and business products and do not supersede robots.txt preferences, but critics argue the changes undermine robots.txt protections, expand data licensing, and create a one-way street that could force significant IT strategy changes.

(Source：Computerworld)