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DeepSeek Chat carries highly permissive license terms; Playground AI carries highly permissive license terms.FOR ENTERPRISE: DEEPSEEK CHAT NOT RECOMMENDED · PLAYGROUND AI NOT RECOMMENDED
| RISK SURFACE | DEEPSEEK CHAT | PLAYGROUND 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…”
“By using the Services, you grant to Playground AI, its successors, and assigns a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, sublicensable, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, prepare Derivative Works…”
Users grant a perpetual, irrevocable, sublicensable, royalty-free license over their text prompts and uploaded images. The license is permanent (survives termination) and allows Playground AI to sublicense, adapt, and distribute inputs with no compensation beyond access to the service.
“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.
“The license to Playground AI survives termination of this Agreement by any party, for any reason.”
Playground AI's license over user inputs and outputs is explicitly stated to survive termination for any reason, meaning the user cannot revoke Playground AI's rights over their content by closing their account.
“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.
“By using the Services, you grant to Playground AI, its successors, and assigns a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, sublicensable, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, prepare Derivative Works…”
The license to 'improve the Services' combined with a perpetual, irrevocable grant strongly implies that inputs and outputs may be used for model training or fine-tuning. No opt-out mechanism is described.
“ (4) Without DeepSeek's authorization, copying, transferring, leasing,”
“ other than as permitted through an allowable API; (v) reverse assemble, reverse compile, decompile, translate or otherwise attempt to discover the source code or underlying components of models, algorithms, and systems of the Services that are not open (except to the extent such…”
“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'.
“ Playground AI utilizes artificial intelligence systems to produce the Assets. Such Assets may be unintentionally similar to copyright protected material or trademarks held by others. Users are prohibited from creating Assets that infringe third-party intellectual property rights…”
“and **Payment Personal Data** are not applicable to DeepSeek App.”
“Playground AI offers a free and paid Service. You can learn more about our paid subscription offering here or within our mobile application.”
The document references free and paid tiers but does not detail the substantive differences in rights, data handling, or feature access between them within the terms document itself.