The Financial Post reports in its Friday, Oct. 30, edition that Meta vowed to consult news industry groups before finalizing new terms of service that have raised concerns among publishers about the use of their content for training artificial intelligence models. The Post's Yvonne Lau writes that Meta's vice-president of communications Andy Stone said on Wednesday, "We do not plan to make policy changes without a full consultation with industry groups and leaders." In mid-October, Meta announced updates to its commercial terms of service, which initially included a clause allowing it to use tools such as Web crawlers to scrape content from sites associated with its business users to "develop, improve, research, train Meta company products, services and features." Media and digital rights groups pushed back against the changes, compelling Meta to remove the language. Advocacy group Movement for an Open Web described Meta's proposed terms and conditions as anti-competitive. "Many businesses effectively have no choice but to use Meta's services and these conditions would force them to sign away the rights to their digital content with no means of opting out," said co-founder Tim Cowen in a statement.