By posting any content on X, users grant X a worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable license to use, reproduce, modify, distribute, and adapt that content across all current and future media for any purpose, including training generative and other AI models, with no additional compensation beyond platform access. The license also authorizes X to make user content available to other companies and individuals for syndication, reposting, and service improvement.
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This provision establishes the contractual basis under which X may use all posted text, images, audio, and video content for AI model training purposes, including generative AI, without additional payment. The sublicensing right permits X to extend these permissions to third-party companies and organizations, which may include AI development partners.
⚠ The content license applies as written to all content posted on or through the Services, including for AI model training and distribution to third parties
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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
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This provision establishes the contractual basis under which X may use all posted text, images, audio, and video content for AI model training purposes, including generative AI, without additional payment. The sublicensing right permits X to extend these permissions to third-party companies and organizations, which may include AI development partners.
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