Change of position
Grok changed what its privacy policy says
xAI dropped its limit on training "only with the Usage Data you voluntarily choose to provide to us."
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- Privacy Policy
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Open Terms Archive changed how it captures this document around the same date. The reviewer checked that the wording itself changed.
What changed
Removed Added. Only the sentences about training are shown, not the whole document.
Before
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To train our models, but only with the Usage Data you voluntarily choose to provide to us. For clarity, we do not train our models using your Account Information, Payment Information, Contact Details, or Technical Usage Data.
After
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Publicly Available Data: We use information that is publicly available on the internet to train our models and provide resulting Output. While we do not intentionally seek out personal information, we understand that there is personal information incidentally included in these datasets. For more information on the sources of information used in the development and operation of our large language models, see our Consumer FAQs.
Please note you can object to our use of your information to train our models in your settings. See Consumer FAQs.
Other Grok changes
- xAI's enterprise terms dropped automatic 30-day deletion of User Content and claimed ownership of de-identified data for any lawful purpose. Change of position · Grok, Commercial Terms
- Grok added a provision stating that it "shall not use any Google Apps content" connected via Google OAuth for "any of its internal AI or other training purposes." Scope change · Grok, Privacy Policy
- Grok (xAI) now says logged-in users “can select whether or not” User Content trains models; logged-out use “where permitted” grants “full rights” for training. Change of position · Grok, Terms of Service