When you use Grok, you give xAI a permanent, irrevocable right to use, copy, modify, and share everything you type into the service and everything the service generates in response, for any business purpose including AI model training and product development.
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The license is permanent and irrevocable, meaning it persists even after you stop using the service or delete your account, and covers an open-ended range of business purposes including developing new products and market research.
The agreement authorizes xAI to use User Content, which includes both your text, audio, image, video, and file inputs and the outputs you receive, for any business purpose on a permanent basis. Logged-in users can elect to exclude their content from model training through account data controls, but unauthenticated users have no stated opt-out.
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we may closely review accounts that offer the following services, products, or content: Online trading, day trading tips, and stock market related content
Paid Subscribers can select whether Content is public or private.
If Your Content is prohibited under the laws of any jurisdiction where our Services are available, we may remove it even if it is not illegal in your location.
"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, list information regarding, make derivative works of, and aggregate your User Content and derivative works thereof for any purpose, including but not limited: (i) to maintain and provide the Service; (ii) to improve our products and the Service and for our other business purposes, such as data analysis, customer and market research, developing new products or features, or identifying or displaying usage or User Content trends; and (iii) to perform such other actions to enforce these Terms, comply with our Privacy Policy, comply with applicable law, or keep our Service safe.Excerpt from xAI's Terms of Service
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision implicates GDPR Articles 6 and 9 (lawful basis for processing), Article 17 (right to erasure), and Article 21 (right to object) for EEA, UK, and Swiss users.
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The license is permanent and irrevocable, meaning it persists even after you stop using the service or delete your account, and covers an open-ended range of business purposes including developing new products and market research.
The agreement authorizes xAI to use User Content, which includes both your text, audio, image, video, and file inputs and the outputs you receive, for any business purpose on a permanent basis. Logged-in users can elect to exclude their content from model training through account data controls, but unauthenticated users have no stated opt-out.
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