On Wed, 5 Aug 2026 at 04:44, Simon Richter <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 8/5/26 5:11 AM, Aigars Mahinovs wrote:
>
> > It is important to understand that TOS work very differently from
> > copyright and copyleft licensing - TOS is *only* binding on the user
> > directly using the service.
>
> If the ToS state that the user must be the sole copyright holder, and
> grant a licence to the service to use the data for training, then this
> service cannot be used for anything where the user is not the sole
> copyright holder and therefore unable to grant the requested licence.
I agree. This alone would make xAI Grok be inclompatible with free software
development, in addition to ethical concerns around it. Other AI services
(as far as I know) either do not have such conditions in their TOS or have
ways to opt-out from this.
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Best regards,
Aigars Mahinovs
