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Meta's No-Training Promise Lasted Fifteen Months

Vol 26, No 20 — You Pay Going In. You Carry the Risk Coming Out

Flux Puts Human Review and IP Risk on You

Vol 26, No 20 — You Pay Going In. You Carry the Risk Coming Out

Synthesia's AI Governance Page Lost the Word "Consent"

Vol 26, No 20 — You Pay Going In. You Carry the Risk Coming Out

Perplexity's Comet No Longer Promises Your Browsing Stays Local

Vol 26, No 20 — You Pay Going In. You Carry the Risk Coming Out

n8n's “We Don’t Train on Your Data”, With a Footnote

Vol 26, No 20 — You Pay Going In. You Carry the Risk Coming Out

Invideo Rewrote Its Terms in Your Favor. Mostly

Vol 26, No 20 — You Pay Going In. You Carry the Risk Coming Out

Vol26 Issue20 Smaller Changes

Vol 26, No 20 — You Pay Going In. You Carry the Risk Coming Out

Perplexity Rewrites Its Privacy Policy and Two Big Things Disappear

Vol 26, No 19 — Perplexity's Privacy Policy Drops Two Promises, We Test Character Consistency

Grok Gets New Terms and Takes New Rights to Likeness

Vol 26, No 19 — Perplexity's Privacy Policy Drops Two Promises, We Test Character Consistency

Magnific Starts a Streaming Channel For AI Content and Bans Training On Its Videos

Vol 26, No 19 — Perplexity's Privacy Policy Drops Two Promises, We Test Character Consistency

ComfyUI Doesn't Have to Warn You Before Charging Overages

Vol 26, No 19 — Perplexity's Privacy Policy Drops Two Promises, We Test Character Consistency

Meta Adds a Child's Contacts to What Personalizes Their Feed and Sends Glasses Audio to the Cloud

Vol 26, No 19 — Perplexity's Privacy Policy Drops Two Promises, We Test Character Consistency

Vol26 Issue 19 Smaller Changes

Vol 26, No 19 — Perplexity's Privacy Policy Drops Two Promises, We Test Character Consistency

Beeble Builds a Commercial-Grade Legal Stack

Vol 26, No 17 — Beeble Builds a Developer Tier, Kling Rewrites Its Takedowns, A Creature Emerges

Kling's Takedown Path Now Cuts Both Ways

Vol 26, No 17 — Beeble Builds a Developer Tier, Kling Rewrites Its Takedowns, A Creature Emerges

Suno Names an EU and UK Data-Protection Representative

Vol 26, No 17 — Beeble Builds a Developer Tier, Kling Rewrites Its Takedowns, A Creature Emerges

Vol26, Issue 17 Smaller Changes

Vol 26, No 17 — Beeble Builds a Developer Tier, Kling Rewrites Its Takedowns, A Creature Emerges

ElevenLabs Routes Image and Video to Outside Models, and Disclaims What They Do

Vol 26, No 16 — Eleven Labs Routes Around Responsibility, Artlist Removes Its Promise You Can Delete, A Coffee Date with AI

Artlist Drops Its Promise That You Can Delete Your Prompts and Outputs

Vol 26, No 16 — Eleven Labs Routes Around Responsibility, Artlist Removes Its Promise You Can Delete, A Coffee Date with AI

OpenAI Academy Can Now Report Your Progress to Your Employer

Vol 26, No 16 — Eleven Labs Routes Around Responsibility, Artlist Removes Its Promise You Can Delete, A Coffee Date with AI

Vol26, Issue 16 Smaller Changes

Vol 26, No 16 — Eleven Labs Routes Around Responsibility, Artlist Removes Its Promise You Can Delete, A Coffee Date with AI

Anthropic Builds Identity Verification and Agentic Data Flows Into Its Privacy Policy

Vol 26, No 15 — Anthropic ID Verification, Ideogram Updates Language but Neglects Revision Date, Can AI Smoke?

Ideogram Rewrites Its Arbitration Terms, Forgets to Change Document Date

Vol 26, No 15 — Anthropic ID Verification, Ideogram Updates Language but Neglects Revision Date, Can AI Smoke?

OpenAI Lays Groundwork for On-Prem Product

Vol 26, No 15 — Anthropic ID Verification, Ideogram Updates Language but Neglects Revision Date, Can AI Smoke?

ComfyUI Continues Differentiating Between Local and Cloud

Vol 26, No 15 — Anthropic ID Verification, Ideogram Updates Language but Neglects Revision Date, Can AI Smoke?

Vol26 Issue 15 smaller changes

Vol 26, No 15 — Anthropic ID Verification, Ideogram Updates Language but Neglects Revision Date, Can AI Smoke?

YouTube Now Flags AI Videos On Its Own

Vol 26, No 14 — Artlist Adds Unlimited, YouTube to Auto-Tag GenAI and OpenAI Expands Admin Powers

OpenAI Gives Workspace Admins The Keys To Employee Chats

Vol 26, No 14 — Artlist Adds Unlimited, YouTube to Auto-Tag GenAI and OpenAI Expands Admin Powers

Artlist Embraces “Unlimited” The Same Week Runway Retires The Word

Vol 26, No 14 — Artlist Adds Unlimited, YouTube to Auto-Tag GenAI and OpenAI Expands Admin Powers

Runway Widens IP Defense Beyond Patents, But Outputs Stay On You

Vol 26, No 14 — Artlist Adds Unlimited, YouTube to Auto-Tag GenAI and OpenAI Expands Admin Powers

Cascadeur Carves Out An Advertising Layer

Vol 26, No 14 — Artlist Adds Unlimited, YouTube to Auto-Tag GenAI and OpenAI Expands Admin Powers

Vol26, Issue 14 Smaller Changes

Vol 26, No 14 — Artlist Adds Unlimited, YouTube to Auto-Tag GenAI and OpenAI Expands Admin Powers

ComfyUI Won’t Train on Your Work. Just on How You Make It.

Vol 26, No 13 — ComfyUI: The Pixels Are Yours, The Recipe Isn't

ElevenLabs Quietly Adds Two Subsidiaries, One Has “Auto” in the Name

Vol 26, No 13 — ComfyUI: The Pixels Are Yours, The Recipe Isn't

A No-Training Pledge at Seedance2.ai, From a Site That Won’t Say Who’s Making It

Vol 26, No 13 — ComfyUI: The Pixels Are Yours, The Recipe Isn't

LangChain Spells It Out, “Including Any Large Language Models”

Vol 26, No 13 — ComfyUI: The Pixels Are Yours, The Recipe Isn't

Vol26, Issue 13 Smaller Changes

Vol 26, No 13 — ComfyUI: The Pixels Are Yours, The Recipe Isn't

Adobe Content Credentials Get Some Teeth

Vol 26, No 12 — Adobe Content Credentials Get Some Teeth

Runway Speaks MCP Now, and the Risk Is Yours

Vol 26, No 12 — Adobe Content Credentials Get Some Teeth

Dreamina Drops the USDS Wrapper, Effective Date Unchanged

Vol 26, No 12 — Adobe Content Credentials Get Some Teeth

Kling Adds More Terms, Effective Date Still Says April

Vol 26, No 12 — Adobe Content Credentials Get Some Teeth

OpenAI Adds a Rights List, Pinned Directly to the Ad Disclosure

Vol 26, No 12 — Adobe Content Credentials Get Some Teeth

Vol26, Issue 12 Smaller Changes

Vol 26, No 12 — Adobe Content Credentials Get Some Teeth

Open AI Makes Global Privacy Changes

Vol 26, No 11 — OpenAI and Meta Global Updates

Meta Adjusts Global AI Terms

Vol 26, No 11 — OpenAI and Meta Global Updates

Freepik Becomes Magnific — and Adds Prohibitions

Vol 26, No 11 — OpenAI and Meta Global Updates

N8N Add No Training Committment

Vol 26, No 11 — OpenAI and Meta Global Updates

Vol26, Issue 11 Smaller Changes

Vol 26, No 11 — OpenAI and Meta Global Updates

Foundry Buys Griptape, Rewrites its Legal Stack

Vol 26, No 10 — The Foundry Integrates Griptape

Runway's Enterprise Quietly Loses its SLA

Vol 26, No 10 — The Foundry Integrates Griptape

Some good, pro-consumer catches this week.

Vol 26, No 10 — The Foundry Integrates Griptape

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