Compare content moderation governance provisions between OpenAI and Anthropic. Provisions are extracted from monitored governance documents and classified by severity.
The clause establishes the scope of OpenAI's operational rights to process and utilize user content as part of service delivery and product development. This licensing structure permits OpenAI to incorporate user interactions into model training and service improvement without additional compensation or per-use licensing fees.
Consumer impact
Users grant OpenAI broad rights to use their inputs and outputs for service provision and improvement purposes, while retaining underlying ownership of the inputs themselves. The non-exclusive nature of the license permits OpenAI to use this content across multiple services and derivative applications.
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Actual clause text
By using our Services, you provide us with information such as prompts, files, images, audio, and other inputs ('Input'), and receive outputs generated by our Services based on the Input ('Output'). As between you and OpenAI, and to the extent permitted by applicable law, you retain your ownership rights in Input. You grant OpenAI a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, copy, store, transmit, modify, and create derivative works of your Input and Output to the extent necessary to provide and improve the Services.
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This clause establishes categorical restrictions on service use related to child safety by prohibiting a defined set of activities and content types. The provision operates as a use restriction that Anthropic enforces through its API governance framework.
Consumer impact
Users of the Anthropic API operate under an explicit prohibition against these specified activities and content categories. Violation of these restrictions triggers potential enforcement action including service suspension or termination under Anthropic's enforcement policies.
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Actual clause text
Create, distribute, or promote child sexual abuse material ('CSAM'), including AI-generated CSAM; Facilitate the trafficking, sextortion, or any other form of exploitation of a minor; Facilitate minor grooming, including generating content designed to impersonate a minor; Fetishize or sexualize minors, including in fictional settings or via roleplay with the model.
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The Department of Defense designated Anthropic a supply chain risk after the company refused to rem…
AI Difference AnalysisProfessional
Stripe's arbitration clause is narrower than Amazon's in one key respect: it includes a small claims court carve-out that Amazon's clause does not. PayPal's clause is the most aggressive of the three, explicitly waiving jury trial rights in addition to class action rights. From a compliance perspective, Amazon presents the lowest risk for B2B contracts while PayPal creates the highest exposure for consumer-facing applications subject to CFPB oversight.