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I've never signed up for the X developer program, so I'm not bound by these terms. But I did download an archive of my data last week. Do I have implicit permission to use that data (~150k liked tweets) to train AI models?

Or is there stuff in the user agreement that separately prohibits this?

Obviously barring normal copyright law which is still up in the air.

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If you live in the EU, GDPR dictates that you own your data generally speaking. If you're in the US it varies by state if you have any rights at all.

If you own your face that doesn't mean nobody can take a picture on the street.

That is partly true, there are carve outs for public spaces. But what they can do with that image is still governed by the GDPR in the EU.

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