By posting any content on X, users grant X a worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable license to use, copy, adapt, distribute, and sublicense that content across any media for any purpose, explicitly including training generative and non-generative AI and machine learning models, with no additional compensation to the user. The terms state that access to the Services constitutes sufficient consideration for this license.
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This provision establishes a broad content license that explicitly authorizes AI model training on user-submitted text, images, audio, and video, with no opt-out mechanism described in the core terms and no compensation beyond platform access. For EU/UK users, the license language differs slightly: the EU/UK version references analyzing text to improve the Services and AI training, but also states that distribution limitations chosen by users via platform features will be respected, a carve-out absent from the non-EU version.
⚠ The license to use posted content for AI training and distribution applies as written upon continued use of the Services
⚠ Content posted prior to account deactivation remains subject to the license as stated in the terms
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Compare across platforms →"In choosing to submit, input, create, generate, post, or display Content on or through the Services, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display, upload, download, and distribute such Content, including anything referenced therein, in any and all media or distribution methods now known or later developed, for any purpose. For clarity, these rights include, for example, curating, transforming, and translating. This license authorizes us to make your Content available to the rest of the world and to let others do the same. You agree that this license includes the right for us to (i) analyze text and other information you provide and to otherwise provide, promote, and improve the Services, including, for example, for use with and training of our machine learning and artificial intelligence models, whether generative or another type; and (ii) to make Content submitted to or through the Services available to other companies, organizations or individuals, including, for example, for improving the Services and the syndication, broadcast, distribution, repost, promotion or publication of such Content on other media and services, subject to our terms and conditions for such Content use. Such additional uses by us, or other companies, organizations or individuals, is made with no compensation paid to you with respect to the Content that you submit, post, transmit or otherwise make available through the Services as the use of the Services by you is hereby agreed as being sufficient compensation for the Content and grant of rights herein.Excerpt from X's Terms of Service
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: For EU/EEA users, this provision requires evaluation under GDPR Articles 6 and 9 regarding lawful basis for processing personal data embedded in content for AI training purposes, and under the EU AI …
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This provision establishes a broad content license that explicitly authorizes AI model training on user-submitted text, images, audio, and video, with no opt-out mechanism described in the core terms and no compensation beyond platform access. For EU/UK users, the license language differs slightly: the EU/UK version references analyzing text to improve the Services and AI training, but also states that …
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