Input and Output together are your "Content"; you are responsible for it and warrant you have the rights to your Input
What you provide is "Input", what the Services return based on it is "Output", and together they are "Content". You are responsible for Content, including making sure it does not violate applicable law or these Terms, and you represent and warrant that you have all rights, licenses and permissions needed to provide your Input. The trade-controls clause adds one specific limit: your Input may not include material or information that requires a government license for release or export.
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You may provide input to the Services (“Input”), and receive output from the Services based on the Input (“Output”). Input and Output are collectively “Content.”
You are responsible for Content, including ensuring that it does not violate any applicable law or these Terms.
You represent and warrant that you have all rights, licenses, and permissions needed to provide Input to our Services.
your Input may not include material or information that requires a government license for release or export
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The text does not say what happens if you lack rights to Input you submitted, beyond the general Terms.
Content & IP Rights · User right or choice
As between you and OpenAI, you keep your Input and own the Output, to the extent the law allows
Between you and OpenAI, and only to the extent permitted by applicable law, you keep ownership rights in your Input and you own the Output. OpenAI also assigns to you whatever right, title and interest it has, if any, in the Output. The next card explains that this does not reach other users' output or Third Party Output.
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As between you and OpenAI, and to the extent permitted by applicable law, you (a) retain your ownership rights in Input and (b) own the Output.
We hereby assign to you all our right, title, and interest, if any, in and to Output.
Qualifications & exceptions
Ownership is stated only as between you and OpenAI; it does not address rights held by third parties.
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The text does not say whether Output is protected by any intellectual property right or what a third party could claim.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Output may not be unique, and the assignment to you does not cover other users' output or Third Party Output
Because of how AI works, Output may not be unique, and other users may receive similar output. OpenAI's assignment of its rights in Output to you does not extend to other users' output or to Third Party Output. Third Party Output is output that comes from third-party services included in the Services, such as the browse feature.
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output may not be unique and other users may receive similar output from our Services
Our assignment above does not extend to other users’ output or any Third Party Output.
some parts of our Services, like our browse feature, may include output from those services (“Third Party Output”)
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The text does not say who owns Third Party Output; it says such output is subject to the third party's own terms.
OpenAI and its affiliates own the Services; you may use their name and logo only under the Brand Guidelines
OpenAI and its affiliates own all rights, title and interest in the Services, as defined in the opening paragraph as ChatGPT, DALL·E and OpenAI's other services for individuals with the related software and websites. You may use OpenAI's name and logo only in accordance with its Brand Guidelines, which are linked but were not supplied.
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We and our affiliates own all rights, title, and interest in and to the Services.
You may only use our name and logo in accordance with our Brand Guidelines
(all together, “Services”)
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The Brand Guidelines were not supplied, so what they allow is unknown.
Content & IP Rights · Company practice
OpenAI may delete or disable content that violates the Terms or is alleged to infringe, and end repeat infringers
OpenAI says it may delete or disable content that it believes violates the Terms or is alleged to be infringing, and that it will terminate accounts of repeat infringers where appropriate.
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We may delete or disable content that we believe violates these Terms or is alleged to be infringing and will terminate accounts of repeat infringers where appropriate.
Qualifications & exceptions
Deleting or disabling content is something OpenAI "may" do; termination of repeat infringers is "where appropriate".
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The text does not describe a counter-notice process or what notice you get if your content is removed.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
You may not modify, copy, lease, sell or distribute the Services, or reverse engineer them
You may not modify, copy, lease, sell or distribute any of the Services. You also may not try, or help anyone try, to reverse engineer, decompile or discover the source code or underlying components of the Services, including the models, algorithms or systems. The reverse-engineering restriction is limited by an exception: it does not apply to the extent applicable law prohibits it.
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Modify, copy, lease, sell or distribute any of our Services.
Attempt to or assist anyone to reverse engineer, decompile or discover the source code or underlying components of our Services, including our models, algorithms, or systems
except to the extent this restriction is prohibited by applicable law
Qualifications & exceptions
Only the reverse-engineering restriction carries the stated exception for applicable law.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
You may not automatically extract data or Output, pass Output off as human-made, or use Output to build competing models
Three further limits are tied to data and Output. You may not automatically or programmatically extract data or Output; you may not represent that Output was human-generated when it was not; and you may not use Output to develop models that compete with OpenAI. "Output" is defined in the Content section as what the Services return based on your Input. These are examples under the "you may not" list, so the list is not exhaustive.
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Automatically or programmatically extract data or Output (defined below).
Represent that Output was human-generated when it was not.
Use Output to develop models that compete with OpenAI.
receive output from the Services based on the Input (“Output”)
Qualifications & exceptions
The extraction limit covers "data or Output"; this bullet states no exception, and no other part of this section of the Terms qualifies it.
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The text does not define "competing" models or what counts as programmatic extraction.
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
OpenAI may use your feedback without restriction or compensation
You agree that OpenAI may use any feedback you give it without restriction and without paying you.
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you agree that we may use it without restriction or compensation to you
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The text does not define what counts as "feedback" or whether it covers Content you submit as Input.