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The provision establishes a conditional structure where the data training practice and service access are linked operationally—the terms require users to accept data use for model training as a condition of Chat Services access, or alternatively to forgo Chat Services entirely if they decline the data use.
Users who continue using Chat Services operate under terms that authorize their Chat User Content to be incorporated into model training processes (with PII removed). Users who wish to prevent this data use must disable Chat Services through the settings mechanism; the terms do not provide a third option to use Chat Services while declining the training data use.
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"We may use your Chat User Content to improve the generative and discriminative machine learning models we use. Any Chat User Content used for training our machine learning models is anonymized, such that any personally identifiable information is removed. To opt out of having your Chat User Content used for such purpose, you may change the code sharing options in the User Settings pane of the user's profile page. Please note that if you opt out, you will not have access to Chat Services. "Chat User Content" mean User Content provided to the Service in the operation of the Cascade or Chat features.— Excerpt from Windsurf's Windsurf Terms of Service
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The provision establishes a conditional structure where the data training practice and service access are linked operationally—the terms require users to accept data use for model training as a condition of Chat Services access, or alternatively to forgo Chat Services entirely if they decline the data use.
Users who continue using Chat Services operate under terms that authorize their Chat User Content to be incorporated into model training processes (with PII removed). Users who wish to prevent this data use must disable Chat Services through the settings mechanism; the terms do not provide a third option to use Chat Services while declining the training data use.
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