Compare data usage governance provisions between Tiktok-Ads and TikTok. Provisions are extracted from monitored governance documents and classified by severity.
The provision establishes the legal basis for TikTok's use of user content in AI model development and algorithm improvement, allowing the platform to process content at scale for training purposes while maintaining operational authority over derivative works and adaptations.
Consumer impact
Users grant TikTok authorization to process their content for machine learning model training, translation, captioning, and related derivative works as part of the platform's standard operations. This authorization applies to content shared on the platform unless restricted through user privacy settings.
Opt-out available
No opt-out available
Actual clause text
Our license to use Your Content includes our rights to access, reproduce (e.g. to copy), distribute, share, download, adapt or make derivative works (e.g. to translate and/or create captions), perform, and communicate Your Content to the public (e.g. to display it), for the purposes of operating, improving, and providing the Platform and developing new technologies (including training, testing, and improving our machine learning models and algorithms) and services for TikTok USDS Joint Venture and our service providers and business partners, consistent with these Terms and subject to your Platform settings.
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AI Difference AnalysisProfessional
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