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DeepSeek Chat carries highly permissive license terms; DALL-E (OpenAI) carries highly permissive license terms.FOR ENTERPRISE: DEEPSEEK CHAT NOT RECOMMENDED · DALL-E (OPENAI) NOT RECOMMENDED
| RISK SURFACE | DEEPSEEK CHAT | DALL-E (OPENAI) |
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| TModel Training | ||
| CCommercial Use | ||
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“ 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…”
“Third party Services. Our services may include third party software, products, or services, (“Third Party Services”) and some parts of our Services, like our browse feature, may include output from those services (“Third Party Output”). Third Party Services and Third Party Output…”
“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.
“- You must not use any Output relating to a person for any purpose that could have a legal or material impact on that person, such as making credit, educational, employment, housing, insurance, legal, medical, or other important decisions about them.”
“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.
“- If you enable [Temporary Chat(opens in a new window)](https://help.openai.com/articles/8914046-temporary-chat-faq) in ChatGPT, those conversations with ChatGPT will not appear in your history or be used to improve OpenAI’s models.”
“ (4) Without DeepSeek's authorization, copying, transferring, leasing,”
“We implement commercially reasonable technical, administrative, and organizational measures designed to protect Personal Data from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, no Internet or email transmission is ever fully secure or err…”
“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'.
“**Your Opt-Out Rights.** We don’t “sell” Personal Data. Depending upon your choices, we may share limited data with select marketing partners for purposes of promoting our products and services to you on third-party properties.”
“and **Payment Personal Data** are not applicable to DeepSeek App.”
“Service credits. You can pay for some Services in advance by purchasing service credits. All service credits are subject to our [Service Credit Terms](https://openai.com/policies/service-credit-terms/).”