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What do the vendors' terms and help pages say about using user inputs and outputs to train models, by plan or surface, and about restrictions on using outputs to build competing models?

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Training statements vary by surface. OpenAI: consumer content may be used to train with an opt-out; API and business content is not used by default. Google Cloud: will not use Customer Data to train without permission. Adobe: says it does not train on Creative Cloud subscribers' personal content and that partner models do not change that. Midjourney and Ideogram contain no clear 'we train on your content' or 'we do not' sentence in the terms read; Midjourney's privacy policy lists data collected through training its algorithms and grants itself a perpetual licence over inputs and assets; Ideogram's privacy policy lists training the models among uses of information collected. Google Cloud and OpenAI bar using outputs to build similar or competing models, and Midjourney bars using the Services to develop competitive products. Curator qualifications: 17 of 17 excerpts present. Bounded negatives re-run on curator readbacks: Ideogram ToS 'compet' 1 hit = 'court of competent jurisdiction' (no model-building restriction); Adobe Gen AI User Guidelines 'compet' 0, 'train' 0; Midjourney ToS 'train' 0 and no opt-out; Midjourney privacy 'train' 1 (the 'data collected through the process of training Midjourney machine learning algorithms' item) and opt-outs only for CCPA sale/sharing and advertising cookies; Ideogram ToS opt-outs only for arbitration; Ideogram privacy 'train' 1 ('training the models that power our Services') and opt-outs for Do Not Track/analytics/marketing, plus a general right to 'object to our processing of personal information'. No training-specific opt-out found for Midjourney or Ideogram in these texts. Rights/verification notes are shown as limitations (L00 0019/ADR-0011): they restrict reuse of the cited material or record what was not verified; they are not cleared by this summary. Limitations: [component_reuse_restriction] General data-protection objection rights are not training opt-outs; legal effect not assessed. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

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    {
      "url": "https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use/",
      "note": "OpenAI Terms of Use (Wayback 20261021174838); OpenAI help 5722486 (Wayback 20261019170943); OpenAI business terms s.3.3, s.4.2; platform.openai.com your-data.md (equals producer pin); Google Cloud Service Terms s.17(b), s.18 (live); Midjourney ToS s.1, s.4; Midjourney Privacy Policy (Wayback 20261002072817); Ideogram ToS (live); Ideogram privacy (live; bytes differ from producer pin bd66fc36); Adobe Firefly FAQ (Wayback 20250729135155); Adobe non-Adobe models FAQ (Wayback 20250514184616); Adobe Gen AI User Guidelines (Wayback 20261016223952)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://help.openai.com/en/articles/5722486-how-your-data-is-used-to-improve-model-performance",
      "note": "OpenAI Terms of Use (Wayback 20261021174838); OpenAI help 5722486 (Wayback 20261019170943); OpenAI business terms s.3.3, s.4.2; platform.openai.com your-data.md (equals producer pin); Google Cloud Service Terms s.17(b), s.18 (live); Midjourney ToS s.1, s.4; Midjourney Privacy Policy (Wayback 20261002072817); Ideogram ToS (live); Ideogram privacy (live; bytes differ from producer pin bd66fc36); Adobe Firefly FAQ (Wayback 20250729135155); Adobe non-Adobe models FAQ (Wayback 20250514184616); Adobe Gen AI User Guidelines (Wayback 20261016223952)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://openai.com/policies/business-terms/",
      "note": "OpenAI Terms of Use (Wayback 20261021174838); OpenAI help 5722486 (Wayback 20261019170943); OpenAI business terms s.3.3, s.4.2; platform.openai.com your-data.md (equals producer pin); Google Cloud Service Terms s.17(b), s.18 (live); Midjourney ToS s.1, s.4; Midjourney Privacy Policy (Wayback 20261002072817); Ideogram ToS (live); Ideogram privacy (live; bytes differ from producer pin bd66fc36); Adobe Firefly FAQ (Wayback 20250729135155); Adobe non-Adobe models FAQ (Wayback 20250514184616); Adobe Gen AI User Guidelines (Wayback 20261016223952)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/your-data.md",
      "note": "OpenAI Terms of Use (Wayback 20261021174838); OpenAI help 5722486 (Wayback 20261019170943); OpenAI business terms s.3.3, s.4.2; platform.openai.com your-data.md (equals producer pin); Google Cloud Service Terms s.17(b), s.18 (live); Midjourney ToS s.1, s.4; Midjourney Privacy Policy (Wayback 20261002072817); Ideogram ToS (live); Ideogram privacy (live; bytes differ from producer pin bd66fc36); Adobe Firefly FAQ (Wayback 20250729135155); Adobe non-Adobe models FAQ (Wayback 20250514184616); Adobe Gen AI User Guidelines (Wayback 20261016223952)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://cloud.google.com/terms/service-terms",
      "note": "OpenAI Terms of Use (Wayback 20261021174838); OpenAI help 5722486 (Wayback 20261019170943); OpenAI business terms s.3.3, s.4.2; platform.openai.com your-data.md (equals producer pin); Google Cloud Service Terms s.17(b), s.18 (live); Midjourney ToS s.1, s.4; Midjourney Privacy Policy (Wayback 20261002072817); Ideogram ToS (live); Ideogram privacy (live; bytes differ from producer pin bd66fc36); Adobe Firefly FAQ (Wayback 20250729135155); Adobe non-Adobe models FAQ (Wayback 20250514184616); Adobe Gen AI User Guidelines (Wayback 20261016223952)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://docs.midjourney.com/hc/en-us/articles/32083055291277-Terms-of-Service",
      "note": "OpenAI Terms of Use (Wayback 20261021174838); OpenAI help 5722486 (Wayback 20261019170943); OpenAI business terms s.3.3, s.4.2; platform.openai.com your-data.md (equals producer pin); Google Cloud Service Terms s.17(b), s.18 (live); Midjourney ToS s.1, s.4; Midjourney Privacy Policy (Wayback 20261002072817); Ideogram ToS (live); Ideogram privacy (live; bytes differ from producer pin bd66fc36); Adobe Firefly FAQ (Wayback 20250729135155); Adobe non-Adobe models FAQ (Wayback 20250514184616); Adobe Gen AI User Guidelines (Wayback 20261016223952)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://docs.midjourney.com/hc/en-us/articles/32083472637453-Privacy-Policy",
      "note": "OpenAI Terms of Use (Wayback 20261021174838); OpenAI help 5722486 (Wayback 20261019170943); OpenAI business terms s.3.3, s.4.2; platform.openai.com your-data.md (equals producer pin); Google Cloud Service Terms s.17(b), s.18 (live); Midjourney ToS s.1, s.4; Midjourney Privacy Policy (Wayback 20261002072817); Ideogram ToS (live); Ideogram privacy (live; bytes differ from producer pin bd66fc36); Adobe Firefly FAQ (Wayback 20250729135155); Adobe non-Adobe models FAQ (Wayback 20250514184616); Adobe Gen AI User Guidelines (Wayback 20261016223952)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://about.ideogram.ai/tos",
      "note": "OpenAI Terms of Use (Wayback 20261021174838); OpenAI help 5722486 (Wayback 20261019170943); OpenAI business terms s.3.3, s.4.2; platform.openai.com your-data.md (equals producer pin); Google Cloud Service Terms s.17(b), s.18 (live); Midjourney ToS s.1, s.4; Midjourney Privacy Policy (Wayback 20261002072817); Ideogram ToS (live); Ideogram privacy (live; bytes differ from producer pin bd66fc36); Adobe Firefly FAQ (Wayback 20250729135155); Adobe non-Adobe models FAQ (Wayback 20250514184616); Adobe Gen AI User Guidelines (Wayback 20261016223952)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://about.ideogram.ai/privacy",
      "note": "OpenAI Terms of Use (Wayback 20261021174838); OpenAI help 5722486 (Wayback 20261019170943); OpenAI business terms s.3.3, s.4.2; platform.openai.com your-data.md (equals producer pin); Google Cloud Service Terms s.17(b), s.18 (live); Midjourney ToS s.1, s.4; Midjourney Privacy Policy (Wayback 20261002072817); Ideogram ToS (live); Ideogram privacy (live; bytes differ from producer pin bd66fc36); Adobe Firefly FAQ (Wayback 20250729135155); Adobe non-Adobe models FAQ (Wayback 20250514184616); Adobe Gen AI User Guidelines (Wayback 20261016223952)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://helpx.adobe.com/firefly/get-set-up/learn-the-basics/adobe-firefly-faq.html",
      "note": "OpenAI Terms of Use (Wayback 20261021174838); OpenAI help 5722486 (Wayback 20261019170943); OpenAI business terms s.3.3, s.4.2; platform.openai.com your-data.md (equals producer pin); Google Cloud Service Terms s.17(b), s.18 (live); Midjourney ToS s.1, s.4; Midjourney Privacy Policy (Wayback 20261002072817); Ideogram ToS (live); Ideogram privacy (live; bytes differ from producer pin bd66fc36); Adobe Firefly FAQ (Wayback 20250729135155); Adobe non-Adobe models FAQ (Wayback 20250514184616); Adobe Gen AI User Guidelines (Wayback 20261016223952)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://helpx.adobe.com/firefly/get-set-up/learn-the-basics/non-adobe-models-in-adobe-products.html",
      "note": "OpenAI Terms of Use (Wayback 20261021174838); OpenAI help 5722486 (Wayback 20261019170943); OpenAI business terms s.3.3, s.4.2; platform.openai.com your-data.md (equals producer pin); Google Cloud Service Terms s.17(b), s.18 (live); Midjourney ToS s.1, s.4; Midjourney Privacy Policy (Wayback 20261002072817); Ideogram ToS (live); Ideogram privacy (live; bytes differ from producer pin bd66fc36); Adobe Firefly FAQ (Wayback 20250729135155); Adobe non-Adobe models FAQ (Wayback 20250514184616); Adobe Gen AI User Guidelines (Wayback 20261016223952)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.adobe.com/legal/licenses-terms/adobe-gen-ai-user-guidelines.html",
      "note": "OpenAI Terms of Use (Wayback 20261021174838); OpenAI help 5722486 (Wayback 20261019170943); OpenAI business terms s.3.3, s.4.2; platform.openai.com your-data.md (equals producer pin); Google Cloud Service Terms s.17(b), s.18 (live); Midjourney ToS s.1, s.4; Midjourney Privacy Policy (Wayback 20261002072817); Ideogram ToS (live); Ideogram privacy (live; bytes differ from producer pin bd66fc36); Adobe Firefly FAQ (Wayback 20250729135155); Adobe non-Adobe models FAQ (Wayback 20250514184616); Adobe Gen AI User Guidelines (Wayback 20261016223952)"
    }
  ]
}

Evidence claims

[sourced_fact] Training statements vary by surface. OpenAI: consumer content may be used to train with an opt-out; API and business content is not used by default. Google Cloud: will not use Customer Data to train without permission. Adobe: says it does not train on Creative Cloud subscribers' personal content and that partner models do not change that. Midjourney and Ideogram contain no clear 'we train on your content' or 'we do not' sentence in the terms read; Midjourney's privacy policy lists data collected through training its algorithms and grants itself a perpetual licence over inputs and assets; Ideogram's privacy policy lists training the models among uses of information collected. Google Cloud and OpenAI bar using outputs to build similar or competing models, and Midjourney bars using the Services to develop competitive products. · locator: OpenAI Terms of Use (Wayback 20261021174838); OpenAI help 5722486 (Wayback 20261019170943); OpenAI business terms s.3.3, s.4.2; platform.openai.com your-data.md (equals producer pin); Google Cloud Service Terms s.17(b), s.18 (live); Midjourney ToS s.1, s.4; Midjourney Privacy Policy (Wayback 20261002072817); Ideogram ToS (live); Ideogram privacy (live; bytes differ from producer pin bd66fc36); Adobe Firefly FAQ (Wayback 20250729135155); Adobe non-Adobe models FAQ (Wayback 20250514184616); Adobe source

Rights

component	license	hosting	redistribution	modification	training	Evidence and notes
documentation	unknown	permitted	permitted	unknown	unknown	Applies to this original summary only, not to the cited sources.

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