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“TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE SERVICE...ARE PROVIDED WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY...”
“You grant, an irrevocable, perpetual, transferable, sublicensable, royalty-free, and worldwide right to xAI to use, copy, store, modify, distribute, reproduce, publish, display in public forums...and aggregate your User Content...for any purpose”
“YOU AND XAI ARE EACH WAIVING THE RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY OR TO BRING, JOIN, OR PARTICIPATE IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS ACTION, COLLECTIVE ACTION, PRIVATE ATTORNEY GENERAL ACTION, OR OTHER REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING OF ANY KIND...”
“As a European-Consumer, you have the right to close your account and withdraw from this contract within 14 days of entering into the contract.”
“all disputes related to these Terms, the Service, or any patents...shall be brought and must proceed exclusively in the federal U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas or state courts located in Wichita County or Tarrant County, Texas...”
“TO YOU FOR ANY CLAIMS, DAMAGES OR COSTS IN AN AMOUNT EXCEEDING THE AMOUNT YOU PAID TO US HEREUNDER OR ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS ($100.00), WHICHEVER IS GREATER.”
These terms govern how you can use xAI's Service and what rights you give up by doing so. When you submit content, you give xAI a permanent, irrevocable license to use it for any purpose. If something goes wrong, xAI's financial liability to you is capped at the greater of what you paid or $100, you cannot join a class-action lawsuit against xAI, and any dispute must be pursued in specific Texas courts.
This document establishes the terms governing user access to and use of xAI's Service, setting out a broad intellectual property license under which users grant xAI an irrevocable, perpetual, royalty-free, worldwide right to use, copy, modify, distribute, and aggregate User Content for any purpose. The document imposes a liability cap limiting xAI's exposure to the greater of amounts paid or $100, paired with a full warranty disclaimer to the maximum extent permitted by law, and requires users to indemnify xAI and its affiliates for claims arising from their use, inputs, or terms violations. Dispute resolution is channeled exclusively to specified Texas federal and state courts, with a mandatory class-action and jury-trial waiver binding both parties. Users are prohibited from using the Service or its Outputs to build competing models or services, from making high-stakes automated decisions affecting safety or legal rights, and from a broad range of technical circumvention activities; European Consumers receive a 14-day contractual withdrawal right.
As a user, you permanently lose the ability to reclaim rights to content you submit, since the license you grant xAI is irrevocable and perpetual. Your financial recovery for any harm is capped at the greater of what you paid xAI or $100, and you cannot pursue or join class-action litigation. You are personally responsible for indemnifying xAI against claims that arise from your own use or inputs. Paid subscription fees are non-refundable except where law requires otherwise. If you are a European Consumer, you have the option to close your account and withdraw from the contract within 14 days of entering into it.
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“TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE SERVICE...ARE PROVIDED WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY...”
“You grant, an irrevocable, perpetual, transferable, sublicensable, royalty-free, and worldwide right to xAI to use, copy, store, modify, distribute, reproduce, publish, display in public forums...and aggregate your User Content...for any purpose”
“YOU AND XAI ARE EACH WAIVING THE RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY OR TO BRING, JOIN, OR PARTICIPATE IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS ACTION, COLLECTIVE ACTION, PRIVATE ATTORNEY GENERAL ACTION, OR OTHER REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING OF ANY KIND...”
“As a European-Consumer, you have the right to close your account and withdraw from this contract within 14 days of entering into the contract.”
“all disputes related to these Terms, the Service, or any patents...shall be brought and must proceed exclusively in the federal U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas or state courts located in Wichita County or Tarrant County, Texas...”
“TO YOU FOR ANY CLAIMS, DAMAGES OR COSTS IN AN AMOUNT EXCEEDING THE AMOUNT YOU PAID TO US HEREUNDER OR ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS ($100.00), WHICHEVER IS GREATER.”
“You must be at least 13 years old or the minimum age required in your country to use the Service, and you must confirm that you meet the minimum age requirement.”
“You can cancel your paid subscription at any time; however, payments already made are non-refundable, except where required by law.”
“Using the Service or any Output to develop models or services that compete with xAI, scraping or reselling any Input or Output, or distilling model data”
“Making high-stakes automated decisions that affect a person's safety, legal or material rights, or well-being (such as making financial credit, educational, employment, housing, insurance, legal, medical, or other important decisions about or for them)”
“Modifying, copying, leasing, selling, reselling, distributing, distilling, manipulating, using bots to access, reverse engineering, or decompiling our Service”
“You will defend, indemnify, and hold xAI and our parents, subsidiaries and affiliates...harmless from and against any and all claims, damages...arising from or related to your use of the Service and Output, your Input, or any violation of these Terms.”
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