Meta has canceled controversial rules for training AI on page content

The company Meta has officially abandoned plans to forcibly update commercial terms for public page owners on Facebook. Previously, the plan was to require creators to allow the use of linked content for training artificial intelligence systems.

The corporation's plans drew sharp criticism from content creators and human rights advocates due to concerns over automatic data collection without explicit consent. The changes were supposed to take effect as part of the autumn user agreement update, but the company decided to scrap the initiative entirely following a wave of public backlash.

According to a statement published by Reuters, the platform's existing rules remain in effect without the addition of the controversial clauses. Earlier in October, developers had already attempted to soften the wording by removing the word "training" from the text, but this did not resolve user concerns.

The reversal preserves the current status of creator control over their materials. Now, page owners are not required to provide external links and media data for training the company's language models under threat of being blocked or forcibly switched to new plans.