What it means
The agreement states this license is irrevocable and explicitly covers training, testing, and improving machine learning models and algorithms, meaning content you post may be used for AI development purposes without additional compensation or the ability to revoke consent after posting.
Consumer impact
This provision authorizes TikTok to use videos, images, messages, and AI prompt inputs you submit for AI model training on an irrevocable, royalty-free basis sublicensable to service providers and business partners, with no compensation obligation to users.
Actual clause text
By creating, inputting, publishing, and otherwise providing Your Content on or to the Platform, you grant to TikTok USDS Joint Venture a license to use Your Content that is: non-exclusive, irrevocable, and royalty-free (you retain the rights to use Your Content elsewhere, although we don't owe you any payments for sharing Your Content with us) assignable and sub-licensable, including through multiple tiers (so we can, for example, work with service providers and business partners to help distribute Your Content); and worldwide (so we can show your content to a global audience). 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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