Our license to use Your Content includes our rights to access, reproduce (e.g. to copy), distribute, share, download, adapt or make derivative works (e.g. to translate and/or create captions), perform, and communicate Your Content to the public (e.g. to display it), for the purposes of operating, improving, and providing the Platform and developing new technologies (including training, testing, and improving our machine learning models and algorithms) and services for TikTok USDS Joint Venture and our service providers and business partners, consistent with these Terms and subject to your Platform settings.
This is one of the broadest content licenses in consumer social media: it is irrevocable, royalty-free, and explicitly covers AI model training, meaning your content may permanently inform TikTok's AI systems even after you delete it.
TikTok's Terms grant the platform a permanent, irrevocable, royalty-free license to use all content you post — including videos, messages, and AI prompts — to train machine learning models and develop new technologies, meaning you cannot revoke this right even if you delete your account or content. Users are also bound by a mandatory arbitration clause with a class action waiver, which means you cannot sue TikTok as part of a group if you believe your rights have been violated. You can delete your account and content via the in-app settings, but note that content already incorporated into other users' posts will remain publicly accessible.