Does AI content hurt you there? Does the platform label it, and when? Is fully AI content allowed? Answers per platform, each linked to that platform's own policy.
Sources last checked September 13, 2026. Platform rules move fast; the newsletter covers what changes.
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Its terms grant Midjourney a perpetual, worldwide, irrevocable, royalty-free license to reproduce, adapt, display, and distribute the content you put in and the assets you make. That is a broad grant. Read it before you put a client’s unreleased product into a prompt.
Primary source Midjourney Terms of Service, "Rights You give to Midjourney" (Living terms page)
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Adobe’s AI ethics page states: "We do not and have never trained Adobe Firefly on customer content." Adobe says it trains on licensed content such as Adobe Stock and public domain material, and does not scrape the web.
Primary source Adobe: AI ethics and our approach (Living page)
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It can, and it is a setting you control:
Primary source Canva Privacy Policy, service improvement and machine learning (Living policy page)
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OpenAI’s terms say it may use content to provide, maintain, develop, and improve its services. Consumer accounts have a setting to opt out of model training, and business and API terms are written differently. Check the plan you are actually on before pasting client material.
Primary source OpenAI Terms of Use, "Our use of content" (Living terms page)
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Anthropic’s consumer terms say: "Subject to your compliance with our Terms, we assign to you all of our right, title, and interest, if any, in Outputs." As with every tool, being assigned those rights is not the same as the text being protected by copyright.
Primary source Anthropic Consumer Terms of Service (Living terms page)
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Google’s Gemini Apps Privacy Hub is the page that answers this: what is collected, how long it is kept, how to turn activity off, and when reviewers may see conversations. Read it before putting client data in a prompt.
Primary source Google: Gemini Apps Privacy Hub (Updated August 2026)
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Yes, automatically, when the whole image came from Firefly:
Primary source Adobe: Content Credentials overview (Firefly) (Updated August 2026)
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Mostly, with one catch worth knowing before a client hand-off:
Primary source Canva AI Product Terms (Effective June 26, 2026)
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Not under Canva’s rules. Its AI terms prohibit removing, altering, or disabling provenance or metadata tags on AI-generated content, C2PA included, and prohibit passing AI output off as human-made.
Primary source Canva AI Product Terms (Effective June 26, 2026)
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Yes, twice over, and neither mark is visible:
Primary source OpenAI Help Center: provenance signals in OpenAI-generated content (Updated August 2026)
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OpenAI’s terms say you keep your input and own the output, and OpenAI assigns you its rights in that output. Two catches: output is not always unique, so another user can get something similar, and owning a file is not the same as it being protected by copyright.
Primary source OpenAI Terms of Use, "Ownership of content" (Living terms page)
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On consumer plans (Free, Pro, Max), Anthropic says your chats are used to improve models only when:
Primary source Anthropic Privacy Center: is my data used for model training? (March 2026)
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Google applies SynthID, an invisible watermark embedded in the content itself, to media from its generative models. It is designed to survive some edits, and Google publishes a detector for it. Google’s generative AI terms cover what you may do with the output.
Primary source Google DeepMind: SynthID (Living product page)
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Usually yes, with exceptions worth knowing before a client campaign:
Primary source Midjourney Terms of Service, "Your Rights and Obligations" (Living terms page)
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Not by itself. Google has said its focus is the quality of content, not how it was produced, and that using AI to help make helpful content is fine. What gets penalized is content made mainly to game rankings.
Primary source Google Search Central: Google Search and AI content (February 2023)
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Google does not put an "AI" badge on ordinary search results. Its guidance points to disclosure where it helps readers, such as saying who or what produced a page, rather than a required label.
Primary source Google Search Central: Google Search and AI content (February 2023)
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Yes, with a limit:
Primary source Google Search: spam policies (Living documentation)
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Yes, when it looks real. YouTube asks creators to disclose realistic altered or synthetic content when uploading. Ordinary production help, like beauty filters or lighting fixes, does not need it.
Primary source YouTube Help: disclosing altered or synthetic content (Living help page)
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It can. When you disclose, YouTube shows a label in the description, and a more prominent one on sensitive topics. YouTube can also add the label itself if it decides viewers need it.
Primary source YouTube Help: disclosing altered or synthetic content (Living help page)
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Yes for realistic AI content. TikTok requires creators to label realistic AI-generated content, and it also reads provenance metadata to label some uploads automatically.
Primary source TikTok: AI-generated content (Living policy page)
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Allowed, with limits. It has to be labeled when realistic, and the community guidelines still bar synthetic media that misleads about real people or events.
Primary source TikTok Community Guidelines: integrity and authenticity (Living guidelines)
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Yes. Meta applies AI labels to images it detects as AI-generated across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads, using industry provenance signals attached to the file.
Primary source Meta Newsroom: labeling AI-generated images (February 2024)
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Photographers found the label landing on ordinary photos after routine edits in tools like Photoshop, including a shot by former White House photographer Pete Souza. Meta renamed the tag from "Made with AI" to "AI info" weeks after launch. Assume an edited photo can pick up the label whether or not you used generative AI.
Meta has not published a rule that AI content is downranked for being AI. The label is about provenance. Reach still comes down to the usual signals and the content rules everyone follows.
Primary source Meta Newsroom: labeling AI-generated images (February 2024)
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Yes. LinkedIn does not ban AI-assisted posts. Its policies target inauthentic behavior, misleading content, and spam, so the risk is volume and deception, not the tool.
Primary source LinkedIn: professional community policies (Living policies)
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Pinterest expects Pins to be authentic and not misleading, and it has been adding provenance labels to generated images. Its community guidelines are the rule that applies.
Primary source Pinterest community guidelines (Living guidelines)
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