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Westlaw AI (Thomson Reuters) has moderate defaults; xAI API carries the most permissive license terms of the set.FOR ENTERPRISE: WESTLAW AI (THOMSON REUTERS) ENTERPRISE TIER ACCEPTABLE · XAI API NOT RECOMMENDED
| RISK SURFACE | WESTLAW AI (THOMSON REUTERS) | XAI API |
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| PPrompt Ownership | ||
| OOutput Ownership | ||
| TModel Training | ||
| CCommercial Use | ||
| DData Privacy | ||
| $Tier Differences |
“ All content provided on this site is owned by or licensed to Thomson Reuters and/or its affiliates (the "Thomson Reuters Content") and protected by United States and international copyright laws. Thomson Reuters and its licensors retain all proprietary rights to the Thomson Reut…”
“We may collect, or you may provide to us, diagnostic, technical, usage, and/or related information, including information about your computers, mobile devices, systems, and software (collectively, “ **Usage Data**”). All Usage Data is and will be owned solely and exclusively by u…”
User assigns all IP rights in Usage Data to xAI with no compensation, and xAI may share derived Usage Data with third parties for any lawful purpose including commercial research.
“You Own Your User Content. You may provide input (e.g., text, audio, images, video, code, files, folders, drives, etc.) to the Service (“Input”) and receive output from the Service (excluding output from Grokipedia) based on the Input (“Output”). Collectively, Input and Output ar…”
“Electing whether your User Content is used for product development or model training.** When logged into our Service, you can select whether or not you want us to use your User Content to improve our products and services and train our models. Private Chat and User Content that y…”
Logged-in users have an opt-out choice for training use, but unauthenticated users are granted no opt-out and automatically grant 'full rights' to their data for model training. The opt-out for logged-in users also does not fully override the irrevocable license granted elsewhere in the Terms.
“Thomson Reuters grants you a limited license to access and make personal use of this site, subject to the Terms. This site and any portion hereof may not be reproduced, duplicated, copied, downloaded, sold, resold, visited, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose withou…”
Use is restricted to personal, non-commercial purposes only. Any commercial exploitation of site content or outputs requires explicit prior written consent from Thomson Reuters, which may be withheld.
“Beta Modes and Trial Features. In some cases, we may permit you to evaluate our Service for a limited time or with limited functionality, including beta, preview, or trial features. Use of our Service for evaluation purposes is for your personal, non-commercial use only. You may…”
“ In many cases, Thomson Reuters is not the source of the information content, and we are not obliged to change or delete the substance of the original content — including any personal information — unless we receive a verified request from the source of the information content; f…”
“By choosing to login to our Service by using a third-party service, such as Google, Apple, or X, you give us permission to access, use, and store your information from that service, as permitted by that service, which may include log-in credentials and/or access tokens for that s…”
Third-party login grants xAI permission to access and store credentials and tokens. The optional X integration allows ingestion of extensive personal data including post history, location, and account preferences, creating a significant data aggregation risk.