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The clause sends virtually all disputes—including disputes about the scope of arbitration itself—to an arbitrator rather than a court, limiting judicial access.
The updated terms state that the Company reserves the right, and has absolute discretion, to remove, screen, edit, or delete any user content at any time, for any reason, and without notice. The revised language also clarifies that while the Company does not claim ownership of user-submitted content, the Company retains ownership of the Services and the underlying technology used to generate Output. Additionally, the terms now specify that users must obtain license rights in their content to allow the Company to operate the Service without legal violations. The operational effect is that user content may be subject to removal at any time under the Company's sole discretion, and users should understand the distinction between their ownership rights in submitted content and the Company's ownership of the platform and generation technology.
View change record →Readers must resolve disputes relating in any way to Perplexity AI's services or products through arbitration, and even challenges to arbitrability go to the arbitrator.
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except disputes relating to the enforcement or validity of your, your licensors', our, or our licensors' intellectual property rights
This Arbitration Agreement shall be binding upon, and shall include any claims brought by or against any third parties, including but not limited to your spouses, heirs, third-party beneficiaries and permitted assigns...
the arbitration provider, National Arbitration and Mediation ("NAM"), shall not accept or administer any demand for arbitration and shall administratively close any arbitration unless the Party bringing such demand for arbitration can certify in writing that the terms...were fully satisfied.
"any remaining dispute, controversy, or claim...relating in any way to the Company's services and/or products...will be resolved by arbitration, including threshold questions of arbitrability of the Claim.Excerpt from Perplexity AI's Perplexity Terms of Service
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The clause sends virtually all disputes—including disputes about the scope of arbitration itself—to an arbitrator rather than a court, limiting judicial access.
Readers must resolve disputes relating in any way to Perplexity AI's services or products through arbitration, and even challenges to arbitrability go to the arbitrator.
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