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.