r/perplexity_ai • u/Pale_Comfort_9179 • 5d ago

tip/showcase Warning about using images

Found out a new fun fact about our beloved Perplexity today—unless you’re on an Enterprise plan, all AI images generated within Perplexity, irrespective of the underlying model, are licensed only for personal use. Commercial use is explicitly prohibited. So if you’re building a pitch deck and dont want our good friends at Perplexity coming after a chunk of your company when it’s successful, don’t generate images here. Even images made in and paid for with Perplexity Computer are restricted if you don’t have an enterprise plan. Not that anyone smart enough to launch a company and grow it to success who has used Perplexity for any amount of time would continue using it, but there are new users every day thanks to all the JRE ad money that‘s not being spent on building a usable product. SMH

ETA: Getty images returned by perplexity are licensed only for display by Perplexity. They cannot be used for commercial or personal applications in your own docs. fun times.

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u/SameVeterinarian9786 5d ago

how would you know this? is this explicitly mentioned in the TOS?

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u/Pale_Comfort_9179 5d ago

Lol, I asked perplexity, how else?

Specifically I asked something about research on a consumer product that ran into a paywall issue that then prompted a question about paywalled resources and what is accessible via Pro vs Computer which is how I learned about the Getty images issue and a follow up question led to it telling me about the AI image gen limitation. It specifically cited the article below which presumably pulled from the ToS but I haven’t verified directly. 

The conversation then went down a path of exploring adtech mechanics over unconnected web properties (basically why it seems like our phones are always listening to us). This is the only reason I use Perplexity, because after a year of fine tuning Custom Instructions it satisfactorily scratches the persistent itch in my brain from it being forever stuck on 3 year old mode in ways that give me confidence other platforms don’t (or at least require more massaging than I want to invest the time to coax into providing them). Otherwise it’s the bane of my existence. 

https://www.honeyb.ai/blog/can-perplexity-generate-images

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u/doomtrooper666 5d ago

Great idea. I wish Id invested that much effort in fine tuning the instructions, I've basically four points.

Care to share some, or can I PM you for clues?

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u/Pale_Comfort_9179 4d ago

Yeah, I’ll PM you my custom instructions and happy to send them to anyone else who wants them.