Netherlands-based WeTransfer has announced that it has tweaked its service terms to remove any mention of machine learning and AI. The platform used by many creative professionals to transfer their work online, has faced intense user backlash for the past couple of days over its updated terms of service agreement. The company through its post on X clarified that it does not don’t use machine learning or any form of AI to process content shared via WeTransfer.
The relevant section in the latest version of the terms of service agreement now reads: “You hereby grant us a royalty-free license to use your content for the purposes of operating, developing, and improving the service, all in accordance with our privacy & cookie policy.”
“From your feedback, we understood that it may have been unclear that you retain ownership and control of your content. We’ve since updated the terms further to make them easier to understand. We’ve also removed the mention of machine learning, as it’s not something WeTransfer uses in connection with customer content and may have caused some apprehension,” the company said.
The clarification comes in the wake of public backlash sparked by a recent update to WeTransfer’s service terms, where the company had suggested that files uploaded by users could be used to “improve machine learning models.” The clause in the original version had said that WeTransfer only had a right to “reproduce, modify, distribute and publicly display” content.
