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DeepSeek Chat carries highly permissive license terms; Groq carries highly permissive license terms.FOR ENTERPRISE: DEEPSEEK CHAT NOT RECOMMENDED · GROQ NOT RECOMMENDED
| RISK SURFACE | DEEPSEEK CHAT | GROQ |
|---|---|---|
| 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…”
“ 4.1 Website Content. You acknowledge and agree that the Websites may contain content that is protected by intellectual property rights, such as copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret, or other rights and laws. You agree not to copy, modify, or create a derivative work of, se…”
“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.
“ 6.3 Restrictions . Customer will not, and will not allow its Authorized Users to, (a) copy, modify, or create a derivative work of the Cloud Services; (b) reverse engineer, decompile, translate, disassemble, or otherwise attempt to extract any or all of the source code of, the C…”
“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.
“ 15.2 Customer Indemnification Obligations . Customer will defend Groq Indemnified Parties providing the Cloud Services and indemnify them against Indemnified Liabilities in any Third-Party Legal Proceeding to the extent arising from (a) Customer Data, any Customer Application, C…”
“ (4) Without DeepSeek's authorization, copying, transferring, leasing,”
“ 6.3 Restrictions . Customer will not, and will not allow its Authorized Users to, (a) copy, modify, or create a derivative work of the Cloud Services; (b) reverse engineer, decompile, translate, disassemble, or otherwise attempt to extract any or all of the source code of, the C…”
“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'.
“Data Retention”
The document lists 'Data Retention' as a section heading but the actual content of that section is not included in the provided document text. Retention periods and deletion rights cannot be assessed.
“and **Payment Personal Data** are not applicable to DeepSeek App.”
“ 18.2 All prices for Resold Services will be solely determined between Customer and the reseller and all payment, billing, and invoicing terms under Customer's agreement with the reseller will prevail over this Agreement.”