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Leonardo.AI carries highly permissive license terms; Perplexity AI carries highly permissive license terms.FOR ENTERPRISE: LEONARDO.AI NOT RECOMMENDED · PERPLEXITY AI NOT RECOMMENDED
| RISK SURFACE | LEONARDO.AI | PERPLEXITY AI |
|---|---|---|
| PPrompt Ownership | ||
| OOutput Ownership | ||
| TModel Training | ||
| CCommercial Use | ||
| DData Privacy | ||
| $Tier Differences |
“**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…”
“ In order to operate the Service, we must obtain from you certain license rights in Your Content so that actions we take in operating the Service are not considered legal violations. Accordingly, by using the Service and uploading Your Content, you grant us a license to access, u…”
“**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…”
“ Information we receive when you choose to link any third-party platforms to your account, such as when you sign into your account through Google or Apple (“ Third Party Platform Information ”) or when you voluntarily link one or more of your health and wellness applications (suc…”
“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.
“In addition to the specific uses described above, we may use most of the above information to provide you with and improve the Services (including our AI models) and to maintain our business relationship, including by enhancing the safety and security of our Services (e.g., troub…”
User data — which includes 'most' categories described above (including Service Interaction Information, i.e., prompts and outputs) — may be used to improve AI models. No opt-out mechanism is described here.
“- 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);”
“ If we become aware that we have unknowingly collected information about a child under 13 years of age or the relevant minimum age in your jurisdiction, we will make commercially reasonable efforts to delete such information. If you are the parent or guardian of a child under the…”
“**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).”
“To the extent the laws in your jurisdiction do not recognize the legal basis of legitimate interest or another legal basis specified above for a particular purpose, you consent to the processing of your personal information for that purpose through using the Services.”
Perplexity uses mere use of the Services as implied consent for processing where 'legitimate interests' is not recognized as a valid legal basis. This is a broad fallback consent mechanism that may not be valid under GDPR or other strict privacy regimes.
“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.
“This Privacy Policy does not cover the use of the Perplexity API or Enterprise Pro, where we act solely as a processor, and which are governed by the applicable Terms and Conditions, including the Data Processing Addendum incorporated therein, that you agree to when signing up fo…”
API and Enterprise Pro users have different (and potentially stronger) data-processor protections under a DPA, whereas free/Pro/Max users are governed by this policy which permits broader use of their data.