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Users' content can be used to build and refine AI systems, meaning content shared on the Platform may contribute to TikTok's AI development beyond what users might expect from a standard content license.
Interpretive note: The excerpt lists several purposes covered by the license. The canonical claim focuses on the AI training and development purpose as the primary one given this clause's name and severity. Other purposes (operating, improving, and providing the Platform) are recorded in omitted_material.
Content you post on TikTok may be used by TikTok to train, test, and improve its machine learning models.
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We hereby grant you a limited, revocable, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license under the rights licensable by us to use the services and use Content from our services solely for your personal use...
...you grant to users of your model a nonexclusive, worldwide, irrevocable, royalty-free license to use, store, and create derivative works from your LoRA and its output.
If you incorporate any third-party material into, or provide third-party material for use in, any User Content, including Work Product, you acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility to ensure that you have all rights necessary...
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"Our license to use Your Content includes...for the purposes of operating, improving, and providing the Platform and developing new technologies (including training, testing, and improving our machine learning models...— Excerpt from TikTok's TikTok Terms of Service
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Users' content can be used to build and refine AI systems, meaning content shared on the Platform may contribute to TikTok's AI development beyond what users might expect from a standard content license.
Content you post on TikTok may be used by TikTok to train, test, and improve its machine learning models.
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