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Prohibition on Using Customer Content for Model Training

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ConductAtlas Analysis

Why it matters (compliance & governance perspective)

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)

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

Roblox Medium

Where the law allows us to, we may use the content you and other users have posted for training or to help us to improve the way we filter content on our platform.

Glassdoor Medium

We may use your personal data to personalize your experience interacting with Content, including what Content we recommend, show, or don't show to you.

MyFitnessPal Medium

If we de-identify information, we will maintain and use the information in de-identified form and not attempt to re-identify the information except as required or permitted 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

Applicable regulations

EU AI Act
European Union
CCPA/CPRA
California, USA
Colorado AI Act
US-CO
CAN-SPAM
United States Federal
ePrivacy Directive
European Union
EU AI Act - High Risk Provisions
EU
FTC Act Section 5
United States Federal
GDPR
European Union
UK GDPR
United Kingdom

Provision details

Document information
Document
Perplexity API Terms of Service
Entity
Perplexity AI
Document last updated
May 11, 2026
Tracking information
First tracked
July 9, 2026
Last verified
July 9, 2026
Record ID
CA-P-061630
Document ID
CA-D-00761
Evidence Provenance
Source URL
Wayback Machine
Content hash (SHA-256)
2cce8939aea0b3bb7eb2569935589c802dd198134cfb395548e9549323755a2d
Analysis generated
July 9, 2026 03:38 UTC
Methodology
Evidence
✓ Snapshot stored   ✓ Hash verified
Citation Record
Entity: Perplexity AI
Document: Perplexity API Terms of Service
Record ID: CA-P-061630
Captured: 2026-07-09 03:38:46 UTC
SHA-256: 2cce8939aea0b3bb…
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: July 13, 2026
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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 280 platforms. See the full comparison.

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