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The clause establishes a data usage distinction between service tiers, whereby free tier usage generates training data for model development while paid and API users operate under different data handling terms. This creates operational incentives for service differentiation based on data contribution.
Free-tier users' translation inputs, including potentially sensitive personal or professional content, may be accessed by DeepL employees or third parties and incorporated into AI training datasets; the only way to prevent this is to upgrade to a paid plan.
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"We may use the texts you translate using the free version of our products or the DeepL App to further develop and improve our products and services. We train our AI models on this data. When doing so, we may also have translations reviewed by our employees or carefully selected third parties. This does not apply if you use the DeepL API or a paid subscription plan.Excerpt from DeepL's Privacy Policy
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The clause establishes a data usage distinction between service tiers, whereby free tier usage generates training data for model development while paid and API users operate under different data handling terms. This creates operational incentives for service differentiation based on data contribution.
Free-tier users' translation inputs, including potentially sensitive personal or professional content, may be accessed by DeepL employees or third parties and incorporated into AI training datasets; the only way to prevent this is to upgrade to a paid plan.
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