When you use Midjourney, you give the company permission to use your text prompts and generated images to train its AI, worldwide and without paying you, and this license cannot be taken back.
This analysis describes what Midjourney's agreement states, permits, or reserves. It does not constitute a legal determination about enforceability. Regulatory applicability and practical outcomes may vary by jurisdiction, enforcement context, and individual circumstances. Read our methodology
Your creative prompts and the images you generate contribute to Midjourney's AI training dataset, even if you later delete your account, because the license is described as irrevocable.
Interpretive note: The enforceability of the irrevocable license against GDPR erasure rights for EU users is legally uncertain and may depend on regulatory guidance or enforcement interpretation.
Midjourney removed substantial sections from its Terms of Service covering age requirements, content rights, DMCA policy, dispute resolution, payment and billing, and community guidelines. The remova…
All users, regardless of subscription tier, grant an irrevocable license for their prompts and generated images to be used for AI model training, meaning content contributed while using the platform may continue to inform Midjourney's models after account closure.
How other platforms handle this
We may use the content you provide to us, including prompts and generated images, to train and improve our AI models and services.
After registration, you may create, upload or transmit files, documents, videos, images, data or information as part of your use of the Service (collectively, "User Content"). This includes any inputs you provide to our AI-powered support tools and outputs generated in response to your inputs. User ...
When you use AI features of the Services, you acknowledge that your inputs may be processed by third-party AI providers. ClickUp may use anonymized and aggregated data derived from your use of the Services to improve and train AI models and features.
Monitoring
Midjourney has changed this document before.
Receive same-day alerts, structured change summaries, and monitoring for up to 10 platforms.
"By using the Services, you grant Midjourney a royalty-free, worldwide, non-exclusive, sublicensable, irrevocable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, and display your prompts, inputs, and Assets in connection with operating and improving the Services, including for training machine learning models.— Excerpt from Midjourney's Midjourney Terms of Service
REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision engages GDPR Articles 6 and 9 for EU/EEA users, as AI training use of personal data requires a lawful basis; the irrevocable nature of the license may conflict with GDPR data subject rights including the right to erasure. CCPA may require evaluation regarding whether AI training constitutes a use of personal information beyond the disclosed purpose at collection. The EU AI Act may require evaluation depending on how Midjourney's training data governance is assessed. GOVERNANCE EXPOSURE: High. The irrevocable, sublicensable training license creates ongoing data rights that persist beyond account deletion, which may conflict with user deletion rights under GDPR and CCPA. Enterprise users inputting proprietary business content or third-party personal data into prompts face heightened exposure. JURISDICTION FLAGS: EU/EEA users have heightened exposure under GDPR's right to erasure and data minimization principles. California users may have rights under CCPA to limit use of personal information for AI training. Illinois users should note that BIPA-adjacent concerns may arise if biometric or facial data is processed through image uploads. CONTRACT AND VENDOR IMPLICATIONS: Enterprise procurement teams should assess whether a Data Processing Agreement is available or required, particularly where employee or customer personal data may be embedded in prompts or uploaded images. The sublicensable nature of the license means Midjourney may share training datasets with third-party model developers. COMPLIANCE CONSIDERATIONS: Legal teams should map what categories of personal data users may input via prompts and images, assess whether the training license satisfies applicable lawful basis requirements under GDPR, and determine whether enterprise use cases require negotiated data processing terms that limit or exclude AI training use.
Full compliance analysis
Regulatory citations, enforcement risk, and due diligence action items.
Free: track 1 platform + weekly digest. Watcher: 10 platforms + same-day alerts. No credit card required.
How 10 AI platforms describe the use of user data for model training, improvement, and development, based on archived governance provisions.
Professional Governance Intelligence
Need to monitor specific governance provisions?
Professional includes provision-level monitoring, governance timelines, regulatory mapping, and audit-ready analysis.
Built from archived source documents, structured governance mappings, and historical version tracking.
Your creative prompts and the images you generate contribute to Midjourney's AI training dataset, even if you later delete your account, because the license is described as irrevocable.
All users, regardless of subscription tier, grant an irrevocable license for their prompts and generated images to be used for AI model training, meaning content contributed while using the platform may continue to inform Midjourney's models after account closure.
No. ConductAtlas is an independent monitoring service. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Midjourney.