Wetransfer has confirmed that it does not use files uploaded in its service to train artificial intelligence (AI) model.
The file sharing company received a lot of criticism from customers on social media after changing its terms of service, some gave it the right to use files for AI training.
A spokesperson of the Wetransfeer told BBC News: “We do not use any form of machine learning or AI to process the content shared through the weightfire, nor do we sell materials or data to any third party.”
The firm has now updated its terms, saying that it has made the language easy to understand to avoid confusion “.
The Wetransfeer stated that the section was initially included in involving the possibility of using AI to improve material moderation “and identifying harmful materials.
Conditions stated that wetransfer may use the material for the purposes “It involves improving the performance of the machine learning models that increase our content moderation process”.
It also included the rights for “re -introducing, distributed, modifying,” or “publicly displayed” files uploaded in the service.
Some of the social media users explained this to give themselves the right to share or sell files uploaded by users to AI companies as a vetresfar.
Creative industries, including people Illustrator And one actorAsked to post on X, he used the service to send work and was considering replacing alternative providers.
The Wetransfer said that it updated the clause on Tuesday, “As we have seen, this route may have created confusion for our customers.”
Claus 6.3 terms of Service Now says: “You give us a royalty-free license to use our content for improvement, development and improvement in service according to our privacy and cookie policy.”
Changes apply to existing users on August 8.
After anger on social media in December 2023, the AI model was also to clarify the rival file-sharing platform dropbox to train the files uploaded in its service.
Tech outlet register At that time commented that even though the claim was not true, the fact that there was such a strong response against the fact that there was a lack of confidence in technical companies by their users.
A data protection expert from Freeths, advocate Mona Shridel, said “may come up with hidden risks”.
“All companies are willing to capitalize on AI Craze and AI needs more data,” he said.
“So it is a skip and there is an hope to try to use existing data for machine learning exercises under the guise of valid interest to improve the service provision.”
He said that users can also be placed in a “hard situation”, if they are involved in a service in which they are embedded or rely on sudden changes, they said they can be left with very little option but to continue using it.
Additional Reporting by Live McMahon
