By posting any content on X, users grant X a worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable license to use, adapt, and distribute that content across any media for any purpose, explicitly including training machine learning and generative AI models, with continued platform access constituting the sole compensation for this license. The license also authorizes X to make user content available to third-party companies, organizations, and individuals for syndication, broadcast, and publication.
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This provision establishes the legal basis under which X may use user-generated text, images, audio, and video content for AI and machine learning model training without additional compensation. The sublicensing right permits X to extend these uses to third parties, and the license applies to all content types including inputs, prompts, and outputs created through platform features.
⚠ The license applies as written to all content posted through the Services
⚠ Content may be used for AI model training and made available to third-party companies without additional notice or compensation
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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: This provision implicates GDPR Articles 6 and 9 for EU/EFTA/UK users where user content contains personal data, requiring a lawful basis for processing beyond contractual necessity when used for AI training.
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This provision establishes the legal basis under which X may use user-generated text, images, audio, and video content for AI and machine learning model training without additional compensation. The sublicensing right permits X to extend these uses to third parties, and the license applies to all content types including inputs, prompts, and outputs created through platform features.
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