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Meta updated their update to its Terms of Service over concerns from companies about AI scraping, Disney offers $180 million over three years to Character.ai, and Qualcomm denies rumors about some Snapdragon 8 chips overheating. Check out the show notes here. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/dth. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Following Friday's meta announcement about a terms of service change that would allow the company to scrape content from sites linked to Meta's business accounts to train AI models, which would have begun October 30th, Meta has now updated this TOS update. In a statement to The Verge, a Meta spokesperson said,
quote, We've heard you and want to clarify. The crawling terms we consolidated only applied to our ads and business products, and we've clarified that in the terms themselves. It does not change how Meta uses web crawlers. As part of Disney buying some assets from Character AI for $20 million, the company announced it would hire more than 60 character workers and pay roughly $180 million in the first three years. This deal must still be approved by a bankruptcy judge.
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