Provision record
Perplexity AI · Perplexity API Terms of Service · View original document ↗

Prohibition on Using Customer Content for Model Training

High confidence Common · 273 of 343 platforms

Key Facts · in the document’s own words

What shall Perplexity AI not use Customer Content for?
“Perplexity shall not use (or authorize third parties to use) Customer Content to train, retrain, fine-tune or otherwise improve any generative artificial intelligence models.”
Version CA-V-006631, captured Sept. 11, 2026 · live source ↗
Our reading, not the document’s words
Perplexity AI shall not use, or authorize third parties to use, Customer Content to train, retrain, fine-tune, or otherwise improve any generative artificial intelligence models.
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Why it matters (compliance & governance perspective)

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The prohibition explicitly extends to third parties, preventing Perplexity AI from outsourcing model training on Customer Content to partners or vendors.

Consumer impact (what this means for users)

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Your Customer Content will not be used by Perplexity AI, or any third party it authorizes, to train or improve generative AI models.

How other platforms handle this

Uber

We use data for analysis, research and product development, including training machine learning models. This helps us make our services more convenient and easy to use, enhance the safety and security...

Canva

We use information about you, information that we collect from within your account, information that you provide to our customer happiness team, and information about your interactions with the Service to resolve technical issues you experience with the Service.

Kling AI

We may also aggregate and/or de-identify your Data and may use such aggregate or de-identified information for any other purposes to the extent permitted under applicable law and not attempt to re-identify the information, unless required by law.

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▸ View Original Clause Language DOCUMENT RECORD
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Perplexity shall not use (or authorize third parties to use) Customer Content to train, retrain, fine-tune or otherwise improve any generative artificial intelligence models.

Excerpt from Perplexity AI's Perplexity API Terms of Service

Provision details

Document information
Document
Perplexity API Terms of Service
Entity
Perplexity AI
Date stated by the document
Jan. 23, 2026
As printed in Perplexity AI’s text (version CA-V-006631), not a ConductAtlas date.
Tracking information
First captured by ConductAtlas
May 11, 2026
Text quoted from version
CA-V-006631, captured Sept. 11, 2026
Record ID
CA-P-061630
Document ID
CA-D-000761
Evidence Provenance
Source URL
Wayback Machine
Archived bytes SHA-256 (version CA-V-006631)
3702b6a4f4cfa970067e2d8ce5b824d6b000f465ef29a7dd81c7513bfc99c946
Analysis generated
July 9, 2026 03:38 UTC
Methodology
Evidence
✓ Excerpt found in version CA-V-006631, captured Sept. 11, 2026 (checked Oct. 5, 2026)
Citation Record
Entity: Perplexity AI
Document: Perplexity API Terms of Service
Record ID: CA-P-061630
Version: CA-V-006631
Captured: 2026-09-11 00:21:36 UTC
SHA-256: 3702b6a4f4cfa970…
URL: https://conductatlas.com/platform/perplexity-ai/perplexity-api-terms-of-service/provision/CA-P-061630/prohibition-on-using-customer-content-for-model-training/
Accessed: Oct. 23, 2026
Permanent archival reference. Stable identifier suitable for legal filings, compliance documentation, and research citation.
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Frequently Asked Questions

What does Perplexity AI's Prohibition on Using Customer Content for Model Training clause do?

The prohibition explicitly extends to third parties, preventing Perplexity AI from outsourcing model training on Customer Content to partners or vendors.

How does this clause affect you?

Your Customer Content will not be used by Perplexity AI, or any third party it authorizes, to train or improve generative AI models.

How many platforms have this type of clause?

ConductAtlas has identified this type of provision across 273 platforms. See the full comparison.

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