Microsoft Terms of Use

Use & Processing · Restriction or exception

You may not use the AI services, or data from them, to create, train or improve any other AI service

You may not use the AI services, or data from the AI services, to create, train or improve, directly or indirectly, any other AI service.

Supporting quotations

Limits on use of data from the AI Services. You may not use the AI services, or data from the AI services, to create, train, or improve (directly or indirectly) any other AI service.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The ban reaches indirect as well as direct creation, training or improvement.
• It covers both use of the AI services themselves and use of data from them.

Not stated here

• The text does not define "data from the AI services" or say whether it includes the output you receive.

Use & Processing · Company practice

Microsoft processes and stores your AI service inputs and outputs to monitor for and prevent abusive or harmful use

As part of providing the AI services, Microsoft says it will process and store your inputs to the service as well as output from the service, for purposes of monitoring for and preventing abusive or harmful uses or outputs of the service. Separately, Microsoft reserves the right at all times to disclose any information it deems necessary to satisfy law, regulation, legal process or a governmental request; this text does not say whether that right reaches AI inputs and outputs.

Supporting quotations

Use of Your Content. As part of providing the AI services, Microsoft will process and store your inputs to the service as well as output from the service, for purposes of monitoring for and preventing abusive or harmful uses or outputs of the service.

Microsoft reserves the right at all times to disclose any information as Microsoft deems necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request

Qualifications & exceptions

• The stated purpose is "monitoring for and preventing abusive or harmful uses or outputs of the service".
• Both your inputs and the service's output are processed and stored.

Not stated here

• No retention period is stated.
• The text does not say whether inputs and outputs are used for any other purpose, whether they count as Submissions under the Materials Provided section, or how the Privacy Statement applies; the Privacy Statement is not supplied here.
• The text does not say whether the general disclosure right reaches AI inputs and outputs.