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Users bear full financial responsibility for defending Perplexity AI against third-party and other claims that stem from the user's own breach of the Terms, including legal costs.
Interpretive note: The excerpt uses an ellipsis before and after 'your violation or breach of any term of these Terms', indicating additional triggering grounds exist in the full clause that were not quoted. The canonical claim addresses only the breach-of-Terms ground that is explicitly present. Other grounds are listed in omitted_material.
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 are financially responsible for all claims, costs, damages, losses, liabilities, and attorneys' fees incurred by the Company Entities that arise from the reader's violation or breach of any term of the Terms.
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Users bear full financial responsibility for defending Perplexity AI against third-party and other claims that stem from the user's own breach of the Terms, including legal costs.
Readers are financially responsible for all claims, costs, damages, losses, liabilities, and attorneys' fees incurred by the Company Entities that arise from the reader's violation or breach of any term of the Terms.
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