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Business terms; indemnity pre-existed

They are business terms, and the sweeping indemnity was already there.

“Meta's new commercial terms say that if its AI makes a mistake, it will legally be the customer's fault.”

CIO (Evan Schuman), 19 October 2026; trending on Hacker News and r/artificial, 23 October 2026

Recorded 24 October 2026. Our ruling means: we tried to break it and could not.

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The evidence file for this verdict

8 receipts: 3 support the claim, 1 contradict it, 4 add context. 3 figures on the record, 0 traced to a quoted receipt.

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Each source, the line we quote from it, its date and which way it cuts. Free to read and to cite.

  1. 1Supports the claimcio.com ↗

    AI features may make mistakes and may not always produce accurate, complete, or suitable results

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  2. 2Supports the claimcio.com ↗

    are solely responsible for and assume any and all risks associated with such AI features and any resulting content.

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  3. 3Contextcio.com ↗

    the company will shift the liability for any mistakes made by its AI models to its enterprise customers

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  4. 4Contextweb.archive.org ↗

    you agree to indemnify and hold us harmless from and against any damages, losses, and expenses of any kind

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  5. 5Supports the claimcio.com ↗

    turns accountability upside down. Meta builds the AI features, admits they ‘may make mistakes’ and then assigns

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  6. 6Contextcio.com ↗

    The data ownership issue sets Meta apart from other AI vendors

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  7. 7Contradicts the claimanthropic.com ↗

    Anthropic will defend Customer and its personnel, successors, and assigns from and against any Customer Claim

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  8. 8Contextanthropic.com ↗

    factual assertions in Outputs should not be relied upon without independently checking their accuracy

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