“For the avoidance of doubt, Personal Data will not be used for training of Perplexity's large language models.”
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This commitment directly addresses one of the most significant concerns about AI services—that user data could be used to improve the AI—by explicitly excluding Personal Data from LLM training.
Interpretive note: The phrase 'for the avoidance of doubt' suggests this is a clarificatory statement rather than a standalone new obligation, but the factual commitment it states is explicit.
Customers' Personal Data will not be used by Perplexity AI to train its large language models.
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"For the avoidance of doubt, Personal Data will not be used for training of Perplexity's large language models.Excerpt from Perplexity AI's Perplexity Data Processing Addendum
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This commitment directly addresses one of the most significant concerns about AI services—that user data could be used to improve the AI—by explicitly excluding Personal Data from LLM training.
Customers' Personal Data will not be used by Perplexity AI to train its large language models.
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