https://scratchfoundation.org/blog/coming-soon-your-creative-learning-assistant
"By submitting Input to [...], you grant Scratch a worldwide, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, fully paid right and license (with the right to sublicense through multiple tiers) to store, reproduce, publicly display, publicly perform (including by means of a digital audio transmission), create derivative works of, distribute, and otherwise use and exploit your AI Content, in whole or in part, for the purpose of providing, developing, improving, and extending the Service and for commercial purposes, which may include (but not be limited to) licensing, developing, and improving AI models and allowing third parties to do so for free or for a fee." [...] a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free license (with the right to grant and authorize sublicenses) to publicly display, publicly perform (including by means of a digital audio transmission), reproduce, distribute, create derivative works of, and otherwise use and exploit the User Content to provide the Service, for internal business purposes, to advertise, market, and promote the service, and to otherwise improve our products and services and create new products and services, including through the training of AI models. In less legalese, this basically means: By giving Scratch any sort of content, including your own artwork, they can forever, without ANY payment NOR ability to rescind consent, use it in any way. They are also allowed to sell this data. They can do anything they want with this. They also say "(You may not) automatically or programmatically extract any data of the Service, including Output; (or) use the Service or any Output to develop or train any AI or machine learning model." This creates a strange contradiction. They're training AI on our data but not letting themselves do it? Many users of this website are children. Many users of this website are artists. Scratch is a platform based on creativity. Letting AI scrape their data in a previously AI-free safe haven is to rip out the heart of creativity. Scratch Team does not care about your creativity. They will not bend to one person. But they may bend to many. ( credits to Karat Vantas)
