US EditionWeTransfer Issues Flurry of Promises that It's Not Using Your Data to Train AI Models After Its New Terms of Service Aroused Suspicion
JUL 15 – WeTransfer updated its terms after user confusion about file use for AI, confirming no files are sold or used for AI training, the company said. Critics included creative professionals.
- WeTransfer updated its terms of service beginning late June or early July 2025, with changes taking effect on August 8, causing user backlash over data usage concerns.
- The update initially included a clause allowing use of uploaded content to improve machine learning models for content moderation, which many users interpreted as permission to train AI models with their files.
- In response to widespread social media criticism, especially from creative professionals, WeTransfer removed references to machine learning and clarified that it does not use files to train AI models or sell data to third parties.
- A WeTransfer representative told the BBC that the company does not utilize AI or machine learning techniques to handle users' files, nor do they distribute user content or personal information to external parties, highlighting that users maintain full ownership and control over their data.
- WeTransfer’s swift revisions and clarifications aimed to make terms clearer and reassure users, but the incident highlights ongoing industry tensions about data rights and AI training consent.
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If you share files through WeTransfer, you grant the company the right to train an AI program to detect malicious or illegal files, the Dutch company wrote in its new terms of service. However, after media reports, that passage was removed. "No," the company now emphatically states. "We do not use your files to train AI programs." WeTransfer says it hasn't done so, but only considered doing so. Despite the new terms, nothing changes how WeTransf…
How WeTransfer reignited fears about training AI on user data
Dutch file-sharing service WeTransfer is under fire after users spotted sweeping updates to its terms of service that appeared to let the company train AI models on their uploaded files. The company has now removed the controversial language, but users remain outraged. Here’s what’s going on — and why it matters. What did WeTransfer change? WeTransfer users discovered this week that the service had updated its policy with a clause granting it a …
WeTransfer Changes Policy After Concern It Could Train AI on User’s Photos
WeTransfer, a popular file-sharing platform used by photographers, has been forced into a climbdown after it faced a large backlash for changing its terms and conditions in a way that might allow the company to use customers' work to train AI models.
After the Controversy, Wetransfer Rewrites Its Policies: It Will Not Train Ai Models with Your Files
The file transfer website has clarified the doubt and changed its conditions: it will not use loaded content for artificial intelligence training.
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technewstube.comWeTransfer issues flurry of promises that it's not using your data to train AI models after its new terms of service aroused suspicion
WeTransfer's confusing terms of service clause prompts reassurances that it doesn’t use uploaded files to train AI models.
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The Independent (US)WeTransfer prompts outrage with new terms and conditions
Company has since updated rules after change ‘caused confusion’
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