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A change in Wetransfer’s general terms and conditions has led to global outrage.
The company has now reversed its controversial updates and proposed that the outcry was the result of “confusion”.
With WETRANSFER, users can upload files so that they can be sent to other people on the Internet, which they can then download again.
A current change in the terms that should come into force on August 8 gave him the opportunity to use uploaded files “to improve the performance of machine learning models”. It is part of a comprehensive rules that enable Wetransfer to use files in different ways.
But these changes, in particular those who pointed out that private files could be used to form artificial intelligence tools, prompted the outcry and suggestions that people should use other competitors instead.
Now WETRANSFER has announced the BBC that it does not use “machine learning or a form of AI to process content via WETRANSFER, and we also sell content or data to third parties.
The clause was added so that it could possibly restrict “AI to improve the content of moderation” and the spread of harmful content.
But it said that it would change the terms to “make language easier to understand”. “This passage may have caused confusion for our customers,” she told the BBC.
WETRANSFER has now optimized the rules in such a way that WETRANSFER still has the license to use the uploaded content, but remove the indication of artificial intelligence. “You hereby provide us with a freedom of licensing to use your content for the purpose of operating, development and improving service in accordance with our guidelines for privacy and cookie,” says the updated change.
The company did not immediately respond to a request for comments from The independent.
You will still come into force on August 8th.
