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DeepSeek Chat carries highly permissive license terms; FLUX (Black Forest Labs) carries highly permissive license terms.FOR ENTERPRISE: DEEPSEEK CHAT NOT RECOMMENDED · FLUX (BLACK FOREST LABS) NOT RECOMMENDED
| RISK SURFACE | DEEPSEEK CHAT | FLUX (BLACK FOREST LABS) |
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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…”
“All Feedback becomes the sole and exclusive property of the Company, and the Company may use and disclose Feedback in any manner and for any purpose whatsoever without further notice or compensation to you and without retention by you of any proprietary or other right or claim. Y…”
Full irrevocable assignment of all IP in any feedback submitted by users — including moral rights — with no compensation and no retained interest. Broad 'any manner and for any purpose' language.
“we grant you a revocable, non-transferable, and non-exclusive right to legally use this product and related services. All other rights not expressly authorized by these Terms are reserved by DeepSeek, and before exercising such rights, you must obtain written permission from…”
The terms do not explicitly assign ownership of generated outputs to users. Combined with DeepSeek's broad reservation of all non-expressly-granted rights, there is no clear statement that users own or receive an unrestricted license to their outputs.
“ Ownership of the Services. The Services, including their “look and feel” (e.g., text, graphics, images, logos), proprietary content, information and other materials, are protected under copyright, trademark and other intellectual property laws. You agree that the Company and/or…”
“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 and interactions are explicitly used to train AI models with no opt-out mechanism described in this section.
“Your interactions with our Services , which may include prompts and other content that is submitted to the Services, such as your image files, and the output that is created through our Services. We collect this information to generate and output new content as a part of the Serv…”
User prompts, image files, and generated outputs are explicitly collected and used for AI model training and improvement. No opt-out mechanism is described for this use.
“ (4) Without DeepSeek's authorization, copying, transferring, leasing,”
“You may not use Output to train, distill or fine tune any other AI models that compete with the Flux AI model(s).”
Outputs cannot be used to train, distill, or fine-tune competing AI models — this restricts a significant class of commercial uses, particularly for AI developers.
“the right to delete Personal Data you’ve provided to us, or that we’ve obtained about you;”
The policy mentions a deletion right but provides no information on actual retention periods, deletion timelines, or whether model weights trained on user data can be 'deleted'.
“ Despite our reasonable efforts to protect your information, no security measures are impenetrable, and we cannot guarantee “perfect security.” Any information you send to us electronically, while using the Services or otherwise interacting with us, may not be secure while in tra…”
“and **Payment Personal Data** are not applicable to DeepSeek App.”
“ Beta Offerings. From time to time, we may, in our sole discretion, include certain test or beta features or products in the Services (“ Beta Offerings ”) as we may designate from time to time. Your use of any Beta Offering is completely voluntary. The Beta Offerings are provided…”