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User-submitted content and generated outputs from the Unpaid Services become training material for Meta's AI development, meaning users contribute to Meta's commercial AI improvement without additional compensation.
Interpretive note: The excerpt does not explicitly state it applies only to Unpaid Services; however, clause id 60478 and the document structure suggest this provision is scoped to Unpaid Services. The canonical claim reflects this contextual inference, which reduces confidence from high to medium.
The updated terms establish new obligations for developers integrating Meta's AI models into their products. The agreement now requires developers to comply with applicable AI labeling, disclosure, provenance-marking, and system classification requirements under applicable law, with responsibility falling on the developer to implement these disclosures to end users. The expanded definition of Inputs now explicitly includes code, libraries, databases, and any content accessed through connectors or integrations, which may broaden what user-submitted content Meta claims the right to process for safety and security purposes.
View change record →The updated terms remove developer restrictions that previously applied to large-scale platforms, meaning companies with more than 700 million monthly active users can now access Meta's AI models without special permission. The terms also eliminate the restriction on EU developers accessing multimodal models and consolidate account management under either managed accounts or Meta accounts. Developers previously subject to these restrictions should review whether the updated terms now permit their use case.
View change record →The updated terms authorize Meta to retain user-submitted content if its systems flag the content for a potential policy violation, in addition to retention tied to legal compliance and contractual rights. This expands the circumstances under which content may be preserved without explicit time limits. Under the revised language, content retention decisions may now be driven by automated policy-violation flagging in addition to legal or contractual necessity. Developers integrating the Llama API should understand that flagged content may be retained indefinitely pending policy review.
View change record →If the reader uses the Unpaid Services, their Inputs and Outputs may be used by Meta for AI training, development, evaluation, and improvement.
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"You agree that Meta may use your Content, including Inputs and Outputs, to train, develop, evaluate, and improve Meta's artificial intelligence models, products, and services.Excerpt from Meta's Llama API Terms of Service
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User-submitted content and generated outputs from the Unpaid Services become training material for Meta's AI development, meaning users contribute to Meta's commercial AI improvement without additional compensation.
If the reader uses the Unpaid Services, their Inputs and Outputs may be used by Meta for AI training, development, evaluation, and improvement.
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