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The clause establishes the scope of OpenAI's operational rights to process and utilize user content as part of service delivery and product development. This licensing structure permits OpenAI to incorporate user interactions into model training and service improvement without additional compensation or per-use licensing fees.
Interpretive note: The scope of the license as applied in practice to model training versus service delivery is not fully specified in the terms; the interaction with privacy policy opt-out settings determines actual data use.
Users grant OpenAI broad rights to use their inputs and outputs for service provision and improvement purposes, while retaining underlying ownership of the inputs themselves. The non-exclusive nature of the license permits OpenAI to use this content across multiple services and derivative applications.
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"By using our Services, you provide us with information such as prompts, files, images, audio, and other inputs ('Input'), and receive outputs generated by our Services based on the Input ('Output'). As between you and OpenAI, and to the extent permitted by applicable law, you retain your ownership rights in Input. You grant OpenAI a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, copy, store, transmit, modify, and create derivative works of your Input and Output to the extent necessary to provide and improve the Services.— Excerpt from OpenAI's OpenAI Service Terms
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The clause establishes the scope of OpenAI's operational rights to process and utilize user content as part of service delivery and product development. This licensing structure permits OpenAI to incorporate user interactions into model training and service improvement without additional compensation or per-use licensing fees.
Users grant OpenAI broad rights to use their inputs and outputs for service provision and improvement purposes, while retaining underlying ownership of the inputs themselves. The non-exclusive nature of the license permits OpenAI to use this content across multiple services and derivative applications.
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