“including by publicly displaying it, reformatting it, incorporating it into advertisements and other works, creating derivative works from it, promoting it, distributing it, using it to train or fine-tune AI and/or machine learning models”
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This clause explicitly extends Yelp's rights over user-submitted content to AI training purposes, a use that goes beyond displaying or promoting content on the platform.
Interpretive note: The evidence span is drawn from a list of permitted uses within a broader license grant. The canonical claim addresses only the AI training use; all other listed uses are recorded in omitted_material.
Content you submit to Yelp may be used to train or improve AI and machine learning systems.
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"including by publicly displaying it, reformatting it, incorporating it into advertisements and other works, creating derivative works from it, promoting it, distributing it, using it to train or fine-tune AI and/or machine learning modelsExcerpt from Yelp's Terms of Service
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This clause explicitly extends Yelp's rights over user-submitted content to AI training purposes, a use that goes beyond displaying or promoting content on the platform.
Content you submit to Yelp may be used to train or improve AI and machine learning systems.
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