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Poe (Quora) has the strongest default posture of the set; DeepSeek Chat carries the most permissive license terms of the set.FOR ENTERPRISE: DEEPSEEK CHAT NOT RECOMMENDED · POE (QUORA) RECOMMENDED
| RISK SURFACE | DEEPSEEK CHAT | POE (QUORA) |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Your Content. Poe may allow you to ask questions, create bookmarks, vote or like, post, or share bot conversations within Poe or outside of Poe. All material that you upload, publish, or display within Poe, and any results that you receive in response to your prompts (or oth…”
“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.
“ Account Information . We collect your email address and/or phone number to create an account and verify your identity. We also create a user ID for your Poe account. If you are an existing Quora user, your name, Quora-associated email address, profile photo, and Quora user ID wi…”
“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 participation is voluntary and the data we collect is anonymized. With your consent, we may use your personal information to communicate with you. It is in our legitimate business interest to improve our platform. Interactions with Bots and Apps on Poe . Our third party AI…”
“ (4) Without DeepSeek's authorization, copying, transferring, leasing,”
“ Use Poe or the bots to develop products, applications, services, foundation models or other large scale models that compete with Poe, the bots, and their underlying technologies;”
“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'.
“ This Poe Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) describes how your personal information is processed when you use Poe, a platform that lets you communicate with other users and with bots and apps powered by third party AI model providers. This Privacy Policy applies to activities by…”
“and **Payment Personal Data** are not applicable to DeepSeek App.”