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AI Training Use of User Content

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ConductAtlas Analysis

Why it matters (compliance & governance perspective)

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.

Clause Stability Stable

0
Changes
3
Months Monitored
Jul 10, 2026
First Seen
Jul 10, 2026
Last Seen
This clause type exists across 924 other provisions on other platforms.

Consumer impact (what this means for users)

Content you submit to Yelp may be used to train or improve AI and machine learning systems.

How other platforms handle this

Tinder Medium

This is still Your Content, and you are responsible for it and its accuracy, as well as your use of it on our Services and any and all decisions made, actions taken, and failures to take action based on Your Content.

Instacart Medium

You are responsible for any content, data, or instructions submitted to the Services via any Automated System. Instacart's license to use user content...includes content submitted by or through Automated Systems...

Chegg Medium

If you use a feature of our Services that is integrated with, facilitated by, or otherwise assisted by artificial intelligence...your inputs are "User Content" and the outputs of that service are "Chegg Content"...

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▸ View Original Clause Language DOCUMENT RECORD
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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 models

— Excerpt from Yelp's Yelp Terms of Service

Applicable regulations

Colorado AI Act
US-CO
GDPR
European Union
Texas AI Act
Texas, USA

Provision details

Document information
Document
Yelp Terms of Service
Entity
Yelp
Document last updated
May 5, 2026
Tracking information
First tracked
May 7, 2026
Last verified
May 9, 2026
Record ID
CA-P-035494
Document ID
CA-D-00239
Evidence Provenance
Source URL
Wayback Machine
Content hash (SHA-256)
d53503a5204a575101a0b55b41cf0aaf446b9e8335df7c9a9038b9e64167ce4f
Analysis generated
May 7, 2026 06:36 UTC
Methodology
Evidence
✓ Snapshot stored   ✓ Hash verified
Citation Record
Entity: Yelp
Document: Yelp Terms of Service
Record ID: CA-P-035494
Captured: 2026-05-07 06:36:19 UTC
SHA-256: d53503a5204a5751…
URL: https://conductatlas.com/platform/yelp/yelp-terms-of-service/provision/CA-P-035494/ai-training-use-of-user-content/
Accessed: July 12, 2026
Permanent archival reference. Stable identifier suitable for legal filings, compliance documentation, and research citation.
Classification
Severity
High
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Frequently Asked Questions

What does Yelp's AI Training Use of User Content clause do?

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.

How does this clause affect you?

Content you submit to Yelp may be used to train or improve AI and machine learning systems.

How many platforms have this type of clause?

ConductAtlas has identified this type of provision across 213 platforms. See the full comparison.

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