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Synthesia has moderate defaults; Leonardo.AI carries the most permissive license terms of the set.FOR ENTERPRISE: LEONARDO.AI NOT RECOMMENDED · SYNTHESIA ENTERPRISE TIER ACCEPTABLE
| RISK SURFACE | LEONARDO.AI | SYNTHESIA |
|---|---|---|
| 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…”
“ This Privacy Policy governs and explains how we collect and process your personal information when you (“ you ” or “ User ”) use our website, located at synthesia.io (“ Site ”), services and products accessible through the Site (“ Services ”), and the associated web-based softwa…”
“**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…”
“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.
“Fine-tuning the AI model to enable it to generate new videos with your Avatar based on the Sample performing a user-provided input;”
User's biometric data (Sample) is explicitly used to fine-tune Synthesia's AI models, meaning the user's likeness directly contributes to model training.
“- 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);”
“ In addition to our third-party vendors acting on our behalf, we will only disclose, redisclose or otherwise disseminate Biometric Data in the following circumstances: As instructed by the Customer as a data controller; As required by applicable State or federal law or municip…”
“**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).”
“Avatar creation features require processing of the facial geometry and/or voiceprint from each of the Sample and Verification Recording. Certain steps in creating an Avatar involve the processing of data considered “ biometric data ”, “ biometric information ”, “ biometric identi…”
Synthesia collects and processes highly sensitive biometric data (facial geometry, voiceprints) which is subject to stringent regulation in multiple jurisdictions. Users should be aware of the elevated risk associated with providing such data.
“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.