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This license covers your voice recordings and video, which Descript may use to train AI models including voice cloning features, a use most users would not anticipate from an editing app.
Descript's terms grant the company a broad license to use your uploaded audio, video, and voice data to operate and improve its AI features, including voice cloning and speech synthesis tools, which may affect how your biometric voice data is stored and processed. The mandatory arbitration clause with class action waiver means that most disputes must be resolved through individual arbitration rather than in court, limiting collective legal recourse. You can opt out of mandatory arbitration by sending written notice to Descript within 30 days of first accepting these terms.
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We may use the content you provide to us, including prompts and generated images, to train and improve our AI models and services.
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Writer does not use Customer Data to train its AI models without explicit customer permission. Customer Data means the data, content, and information that customers and their end users submit to or through the Services.
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"By submitting, posting or displaying Content on or through the Services, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute such Content in any and all media or distribution methods now known or later developed. You agree that this license includes the right for Descript to provide, promote, and improve the Services and to make Content submitted to or through the Services available to other companies, organizations or individuals who partner with Descript for the syndication, broadcast, distribution or publication of such Content on other media and services.— Excerpt from Descript's Descript Terms of Service
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This license covers your voice recordings and video, which Descript may use to train AI models including voice cloning features, a use most users would not anticipate from an editing app.
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