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DeepSeek API carries highly permissive license terms; xAI API carries highly permissive license terms.FOR ENTERPRISE: DEEPSEEK API NOT RECOMMENDED · XAI API NOT RECOMMENDED
| RISK SURFACE | DEEPSEEK API | XAI API |
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| PPrompt Ownership | ||
| OOutput Ownership | ||
| TModel Training | ||
| CCommercial Use | ||
| DData Privacy | ||
| $Tier Differences |
“ 4.1 You are responsible for all Inputs you submit to our Services and corresponding Outputs. By submitting Inputs to our Services, you represent and warrant that you have all rights, licenses, and permissions that are necessary for us to process the Inputs under our Terms. Y…”
“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…”
The license granted to xAI over user inputs is irrevocable, perpetual, transferable, sublicensable, and royalty-free, covering virtually any purpose. This is an extremely broad grant that survives account termination and cannot be revoked by the user.
“Specifically, within DeepSeek's product services, these models, based on user input information (referred to as "Inputs"), compute and infer to output corresponding content as a response (referred to as "Outputs" ), including text, tables, and code. U”
The document is truncated and may contain an output-ownership clause later. Absence of an explicit grant to users of output ownership is a risk.
“**Similarity of content.** Due to the nature of artificial intelligence, outputs may not be unique, and different users may receive similar output from our Service. Your rights to the Output do not extend to other's rights.”
“To improve and develop the Services and to train and improve our technology, such as our machine learning models and algorithms. Including by monitoring interactions and usage across your devices, analyzing how people are using it, and training and improving our technology.”
User inputs, outputs, and behavioral data are explicitly used to train and improve AI models with no opt-out mechanism described in this section.
“Electing whether your User Content is used for product development or model training.** When logged into our Service, you can select whether or not you want us to use your User Content to improve our products and services and train our models. Private Chat and User Content that y…”
Logged-in users have an opt-out choice for training use, but unauthenticated users are granted no opt-out and automatically grant 'full rights' to their data for model training. The opt-out for logged-in users also does not fully override the irrevocable license granted elsewhere in the Terms.
“ lending, selling, or sub-licensing the entire or part of the Services.”
“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”
Users are prohibited from using outputs to develop competing models or services, or from reselling outputs. This restricts legitimate commercial applications of generated content.
“the right to delete Personal Data you’ve provided to us, or that we’ve obtained about you;”
The policy references a deletion right but provides no detail on actual retention periods, deletion timelines, or what happens to data already used in model training upon deletion request.
“By choosing to login to our Service by using a third-party service, such as Google, Apple, or X, you give us permission to access, use, and store your information from that service, as permitted by that service, which may include log-in credentials and/or access tokens for that s…”
Third-party login grants xAI permission to access and store credentials and tokens. The optional X integration allows ingestion of extensive personal data including post history, location, and account preferences, creating a significant data aggregation risk.
“and **Payment Personal Data** are not applicable to DeepSeek App.”
“- At our sole discretion, we may implement rate limitations to accommodate system resources or usage needs.”