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DeepSeek Chat carries highly permissive license terms; Leonardo.AI carries highly permissive license terms.FOR ENTERPRISE: DEEPSEEK CHAT NOT RECOMMENDED · LEONARDO.AI NOT RECOMMENDED
| RISK SURFACE | DEEPSEEK CHAT | LEONARDO.AI |
|---|---|---|
| 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…”
“**9.1** We own all intellectual property rights in our Services (including our Platform). This includes how our Platform looks and functions, as well as our copyrighted works, trademarks, inventions, designs and other intellectual property, including Our Materials. You agree not…”
“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.
“**7.2** Subject to your Consumer Law Rights, the Generated Content is provided “as is” without warranties of any kind, either expressed or implied, including but not limited to warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title or non-infringement. We disclaim…”
“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.
“For Service improvement (including analytics and machine learning):** We may analyse your Content and related data in your account to improve the Service, and to train our algorithms, models, and AI products and services using machine learning to develop, improve and provide our…”
By default, user content is used for model training. Opt-out requires a paid subscription and use of the private generation mode — free-tier users have no opt-out.
“ (4) Without DeepSeek's authorization, copying, transferring, leasing,”
“- our [privacy policy](https://leonardo.ai/privacy-policy) and our [data processing addendum](https://leonardo.ai/data-processing-addendum) (on our website) which each set out how we handle the Personal Data of our users and commercial customers (as applicable);”
“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'.
“**10.5** You must only disclose Personal Data to us if you have the right to do so (such as having the individual’s express consent).”
“and **Payment Personal Data** are not applicable to DeepSeek App.”
“With a paid subscription, you have control over who can see your generated Content. When you use private mode, your generated Content cannot be accessed or used by other users. If private mode is turned off, your Content is considered public and can be accessed and used by other…”
Free-tier users have no privacy controls: all generated content is public by default, indexed by search engines, and accessible to other users. This is a significant tier-based privacy disparity.