Use & Processing · Restriction or exception
Scraping or using Telegram data for AI development is prohibited
Telegram firmly prohibits scraping, indexing, harvesting, aggregation or use of data obtained from its platform to train, fine-tune, validate or otherwise engage in the development, enhancement, benchmarking or deployment of artificial intelligence, machine learning models and similar technologies. Exceptions may be granted only where the specific consent conditions described in the next card are met.
Details
- Who
- Anyone scraping, indexing, harvesting, aggregating or using data from Telegram
- What it does
- Prohibited: scraping, indexing, harvesting, aggregation or use for AI and machine learning development
- What it covers
- Data obtained from the Telegram platform
- Why
- Training, fine-tuning, validating, developing, enhancing, benchmarking or deploying AI and machine learning models and similar technologies
- Exception
- Exceptions may be granted with the individual consent of all relevant users
Supporting quotations
Telegram firmly prohibits the scraping, indexing, harvesting, aggregation or use of data obtained from its platform to train, fine-tune, validate or otherwise engage in the development, enhancement, benchmarking or deployment of artificial intelligence, machine learning models and similar technologies.
Exceptions may be granted in instances where all relevant users individually provide explicit, informed, affirmative and continued consent
Qualifications & exceptions
- Exceptions may be granted where all relevant users individually give explicit, informed, affirmative and continued consent limited to the specific content and context requested.
- The prohibition covers data 'obtained from its platform', not only data obtained by scraping.
Not stated here
- The page does not say who grants exceptions or how a request is made.
- The page does not define 'similar technologies' or say how the prohibition is enforced.
Cross-references
- has exception (model-proposed): AI exceptions need each relevant user's explicit, continued, context-limited consent — Context-limited consent of all relevant users is the condition under which exceptions to the AI development prohibition may be granted.