Meta to Literally Every Business User: Nice Website You Got There
THE SO WHAT
Meta asserting rights to use any commercial customer’s website content for training Muse turns your marketing site into upstream AI training data by default. If you advertise or operate on Meta, treat your public web content as no longer fully under your control and revisit both data governance and what you expose on the open web.
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