This is the quiet part they don’t shout about. Every post, every prompt, every meme you make is now free game for them to feed into AI, forever, everywhere, without a dime to you. They can yank your account, block your content, and you can’t join forces with anyone to fight it. The small print makes “free speech” sound cute while your words are quietly mined and owned. It’s not just a Terms update, it’s a claim on everything you create under their roof.
Updates to our Terms and Privacy Policy
We’re updating the X Terms of Service and Privacy Policy to support our evolving business, meet new legal requirements, and make it clearer what we expect from you and what you can expect from us when using our services.
We’ve updated our Terms to explain that in some places, for example, the EU and UK, we may need to remove not only illegal content but also content considered harmful or unsafe under local laws. Where such obligations apply, the respective content will be made unavailable only within the required country or geographic area and will remain accessible elsewhere.
https://privacy.x.com/en/blog/2025/updates-tos-privacy-policy
The rest in a nutshell
AI training: Users grant royalty-free license for content (incl. prompts/outputs) to train AI, no opt-out or compensation.
– License: Perpetual, worldwide, for any purpose.
– Jurisdiction: Tarrant County, TX; class action waiver.
– Termination: Possible for any/no reason.
– Damages: $15k per 1M posts/24hrs for scraping.
– Disclosure: Reserved rights if believed necessary.
– Anti-jailbreak: Prohibited, incl. prompt engineering.
– Limitations: 1yr federal, 2yr state claims.
– Liability: Capped at $100.
Free speech uh
h/t A Deplorable Neanderthal