Compare ai / automated decision-making governance provisions between OpenAI and Anthropic. Provisions are extracted from monitored governance documents and classified by severity.
The clause creates a broad operational authorization for OpenAI to incorporate user content into service development and model improvement processes, while preserving user ownership and providing a mechanism to restrict training-specific uses.
Consumer impact
Users authorize OpenAI to use their submitted content for service provision and improvement by default upon submission. Users who wish to restrict use of their content for model training may opt out through their account settings, after which the license applies to other specified service functions but not to training operations.
Opt-out available
No opt-out available
Actual clause text
By using our Services, you provide us with information, including your inputs and how you interact with the Services ("Your Content"). You retain whatever rights you have in Your Content. By submitting Your Content to our Services, you grant OpenAI a license to use Your Content to provide, maintain, develop, and improve our Services. If you do not want OpenAI to use your Content to train models that improve our Services, you can opt out in your account settings.
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This clause allocates responsibility by requiring users to warrant their authority to direct the service's actions and to provide inputs that the service can legally process. It establishes the operational framework under which Claude.ai accepts user-directed inputs and takes actions without independently verifying the user's underlying authority to authorize those actions.
Consumer impact
Users bear responsibility for ensuring their inputs and requested actions comply with applicable law and that they possess the necessary rights to authorize the service to take those actions on their behalf, including directing the service to interact with third-party systems or share materials. The provision requires users to warrant their authority rather than requiring the service to independently verify such authority.
Opt-out available
No opt-out available
Actual clause text
Our Services may generate responses (we call these "Outputs"), or enable the Services to take actions on your behalf, such as software manipulation, data processing, and system interactions (we call these "Actions"), based on your Inputs. You are responsible for all Inputs you submit to our Services and all Actions. By submitting Inputs to our Services, you represent and warrant that you have all rights, licenses, and permissions that are necessary for us to process the Inputs under our Terms and to provide the Services to you, including for example, to integrate with third-party services, to share Materials with others at your direction, and to take Actions.
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