Compare data usage governance provisions between OpenAI and Anthropic. Provisions are extracted from monitored governance documents and classified by severity.
The clause establishes OpenAI's operational authority to incorporate user content and feedback into service development and improvement activities. This authorization permits the company to leverage submitted materials for product enhancement without separate consent requirements for each use case.
Consumer impact
Users grant OpenAI a broad license to their submitted content for service provision and improvement purposes upon use of the platform. Additionally, any feedback provided to OpenAI becomes available for use by the company without compensation obligations or usage restrictions to the user.
Opt-out available
No opt-out available
Actual clause text
By using our Services, you grant OpenAI a license to use your Content to provide, maintain, develop, and improve our Services, comply with applicable law, and enforce our policies. If you choose to provide feedback about our Services, such as suggestions for improvement, we may use your feedback without restriction or compensation to you.
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The clause establishes a default data use authorization for model development with a user-controlled opt-out mechanism, while preserving the company's authorization to use materials for training purposes in two specified operational contexts regardless of opt-out status. This structure addresses the operational distinction between general service improvement and safety-critical use cases.
Consumer impact
Users may restrict Anthropic's use of their materials for model training through account settings, but this restriction does not apply when users submit explicit feedback or when materials undergo safety review processes. The terms thereby condition the scope of user opt-out rights on the category and context of material use.
Opt-out available
No opt-out available
Actual clause text
Our use of Materials. We may use Materials to provide, maintain, and improve the Services and to develop other products and services, including training our models, unless you opt out of training through your account settings. Even if you opt out, we will use Materials for model training when: (1) you provide Feedback to us regarding any Materials, or (2) your Materials are flagged for safety review to improve our ability to detect harmful content, enforce our policies, or advance our safety research.
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The Department of Defense designated Anthropic a supply chain risk after the company refused to rem…
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