5 Vendor Contract Clauses That Quietly Allow AI Training Using Your Data

Technology vendors rarely ask direct permission to train their models using your data. Instead, that permission is often hidden in ordinary-looking clauses found in SaaS and other agreements.

When reviewing technology contracts, there are the five contractual provisions to look out for. These clauses create a contractual mechanisms which allows vendors to utilise your data including customer inputs, prompts and outputs to train AI models, with customers being none-the-wiser.

If any of these clauses are encountered in reviewing SaaS and other agreements, it is essential to ensure that you have a full appreciation of the risks in agreeing to these seemingly harmless clauses, especially, from a data governance and privacy compliance perspective.