Every prompt you type into Runway and every AI-generated video, image, or other output you create is permanently licensed to Runway for use in training its AI systems, and you cannot take back that permission once granted.
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The provision establishes that user-generated content and service outputs become available to the company as training data without temporal limitation or geographic restriction. This operational authorization permits the company to incorporate user interactions directly into model development and refinement processes on a perpetual basis.
Any creative prompts or generated content you submit to Runway, including commercially sensitive or proprietary material, can be used permanently by Runway to improve its AI models regardless of whether you later close your account.
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If you use a feature of our Services that is integrated with, facilitated by, or otherwise assisted by artificial intelligence...your inputs are "User Content" and the outputs of that service are "Chegg Content"...
We may expand our inference capabilities over time to improve our Services.
you acknowledge that other users of our Services may, through no fault of Superhuman, use inputs that are similar to yours and, as a result, receive the same or similar outputs as your Outputs.
"You acknowledge that Inputs and Outputs may be used by the Company to train and improve its AI models, algorithms and related technology, products and services (including for labeling, classification, content moderation and model training purposes). As such, you hereby grant to the Company a non-exclusive, irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, fully paid, transferable, sublicensable right and license to use any Inputs and Outputs Made Available by you or otherwise generated in connection with your use of the Services at any point, in connection with the purposes described above.Excerpt from Runway's Terms of Service
REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision implicates GDPR Articles 6 and 7, which require a lawful basis for processing personal data and establish that consent must be freely given, specific, informed, and withdrawable.
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The provision establishes that user-generated content and service outputs become available to the company as training data without temporal limitation or geographic restriction. This operational authorization permits the company to incorporate user interactions directly into model development and refinement processes on a perpetual basis.
Any creative prompts or generated content you submit to Runway, including commercially sensitive or proprietary material, can be used permanently by Runway to improve its AI models regardless of whether you later close your account.
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