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The provision establishes the legal basis for TikTok's use of user content in AI model development and algorithm improvement, allowing the platform to process content at scale for training purposes while maintaining operational authority over derivative works and adaptations.
Users grant TikTok authorization to process their content for machine learning model training, translation, captioning, and related derivative works as part of the platform's standard operations. This authorization applies to content shared on the platform unless restricted through user privacy settings.
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"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.Excerpt from TikTok's Terms of Service
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The provision establishes the legal basis for TikTok's use of user content in AI model development and algorithm improvement, allowing the platform to process content at scale for training purposes while maintaining operational authority over derivative works and adaptations.
Users grant TikTok authorization to process their content for machine learning model training, translation, captioning, and related derivative works as part of the platform's standard operations. This authorization applies to content shared on the platform unless restricted through user privacy settings.
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