1. What the document is: Alibaba Cloud (Singapore) Private Limited's consumer Terms of Service for Qwen Chat, rebranded "Qwen Studio" (qwen.ai) in the 2026-04-09 capture. Governed by Singapore law.
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Qwen Chat – Terms of Service
Dataset: GenGA (Generative AI Governance Archive) — 11 AI services, 2025–present
GenGA (Generative AI Governance Archive) is this wiki’s Generative-AI dataset: raw policy snapshots captured by the Open Terms Archive
genai-euproject across 11 GenAI providers (ChatGPT, Claude.ai, DeepSeek, Google Generative AI Services, Le Chat, Llama API, Meta AI, Microsoft Copilot, Perplexity, Qwen Chat, xAI). Unlike PGAv2, GenGA has no pre-tagged risk scores — all risk scoring and keyword tagging on these pages is LLM-assigned by direct reading, spanning 2025–present.
Note: This page contains documented policy clauses. Risk assessment is qualitative and context-dependent. For analysis of patterns across platforms, see:
Source: sources/GenGA/Qwen Chat/Terms of Service/ (raw Markdown captures, Open Terms Archive genai-eu dataset — no pre-tagged JSONL exists for this source)
Last updated: 2026-04-09
Note on methodology: No pre-computed
risk_score/keywordfields exist for this source. Keyword tags and clause analysis on this page are LLM-assigned, using the same rubric/vocabulary as the PGAv2 pages plus new GenAI-specific tags (train AI/models,input license,feedback,competing model ban). Treat as first-pass analysis, not externally verified ground truth. This wiki’s risk-scoring system was retired project-wide on 2026-06-21 (seemethodology.md§4) — no page, GenGA included, computes or displays a numeric risk score.
Overview
1. What the document is: Alibaba Cloud (Singapore) Private Limited’s consumer Terms of Service for Qwen Chat, rebranded “Qwen Studio” (qwen.ai) in the 2026-04-09 capture. Governed by Singapore law.
2. Input rights: An explicit training-consent clause, agreed to by accepting the Terms: “You hereby expressly authorise and consent to us: (i) using and storing User Content that is not personal data to develop and improve our machine-learning and artificial-intelligence technologies; and (ii) processing and storing such User Content outside of the jurisdiction where you are using the Services.” No opt-out is described.
3. Output restrictions: The “Non-commercial Use” clause limits the entire Services, including Outputs, to “personal learning, research, and experimental purposes” unless Alibaba/Qwen gives prior written consent. That’s an unusually tight restriction for a consumer chat-AI product — not found in any other chat-AI provider’s Terms of Service in this dataset.
4. Non-explicit predatory clauses — major finding: The User Content license is the broadest, most fully-stacked grant found among all 11 GenAI providers in this dataset: “unconditional, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully transferable, sub-licensable, perpetual, worldwide licence, to access, use, host, modify, communicate, reproduce, adapt, make derivative works of, publish, perform, and/or distribute any User Content.” That’s every major predatory qualifier in one clause — perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, transferable, sublicensable, worldwide, plus the right to make derivative works — and there’s a separate, identically stacked license over the user’s “user name(s), image(s), and likeness(es).” It’s paired with an explicit moral-rights waiver that cites specific statutes — “Copyright Act 2021 of Singapore, the rights described in Article 6bis of the Berne Convention” — the first clause in the GenAI dataset to name specific moral-rights law. (PGAv2 platforms like Reddit and Moltbook have similar waivers, but without statutory citations.)
5. Regulatory references: Singapore’s Copyright Act 2021 (moral rights, DMCA-style copyright-notice procedure) and the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 2001. No GDPR or EU AI Act citation appears here — GDPR is cited separately, in the Privacy Policy, where it was newly added in 2026-04-09.
6. Regional variation: None. Governing law is Singapore, with exclusive jurisdiction in Singapore courts.
7. Key risk to users: High compared to other chat-AI providers in this dataset. The perpetual, irrevocable, derivative-works Content license, plus the name/likeness license, plus the statute-specific moral-rights waiver, together make this the single broadest consumer rights grab among the 11 GenAI providers tracked — closer in structure to a maximal PGAv2 social-media grant (Reddit, Moltbook, TruthSocial) than to any other chat-AI provider’s Terms of Service.
Flagged Keywords & Risks (LLM-assigned)
train AI/models— “using and storing User Content that is not personal data to develop and improve our machine-learning and artificial-intelligence technologies.” Granted through an explicit consent clause, with no opt-out described.input license— “unconditional, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully transferable, sub-licensable, perpetual, worldwide licence… to make derivative works of… any User Content,” plus an identical separate license over name/image/likeness. Why it matters: the most fully-stacked Content license among all 11 GenAI providers in this dataset.feedback— “we shall own all right, title, and interest in and to such User Feedback… You shall do, execute, or procure to be done and executed all such further acts… as may be necessary to assign all rights, title, and interest.” Why it matters: this assigns ownership outright, matching Perplexity’s structure — now 2 of the 11 providers use assignment language instead of a license.competing model ban— “use any information, data, or content (including without limitation the Outputs) made available via the Services to develop or improve any products or services (including without limitation any models) that compete with or are similar in functionality to the Services” is explicitly prohibited.
Regulatory & Research Context
Qwen Chat was not among the providers Davidson et al. (2026) or Pandit et al. (2026) directly studied, but Pandit et al.’s description of GenAI consumers facing “significant imbalance of power” and “responsibilities they cannot materially fulfil” applies by analogy to this page’s “major finding”: the input license clause’s fully-stacked “unconditional, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully transferable, sub-licensable, perpetual, worldwide” grant — including the right to “make derivative works of” User Content — paired with an explicit moral-rights waiver citing Singapore’s Copyright Act 2021 and the Berne Convention. Edwards et al. (2025) would situate this combination, plus the feedback rights assignment and the restrictive “Non-commercial Use” limitation on Outputs, within the “platformisation paradigm,” in which a consumer chat-AI product adopts a content-licensing structure that the page itself flags as the broadest among all 11 GenGA providers, closer to a maximal social-media-style grant than to a typical chat-AI Terms of Service.
Changes Summary
| Date | What changed |
|---|---|
| 2025-11-11 | Baseline version (“Last updated: March 1, 2025”). |
| 2026-04-09 | Cosmetic-only rebrand: “Alibaba”/“Qwen Chat”/chat.qwenlm.ai renamed throughout to “Qwen”/“Qwen Studio”/qwen.ai, with corresponding clause-numbering renumbering. No change to training-consent, Content-license, Feedback, or competing-model-ban clauses. |
Version History
2025-11-11
- Explicit AI clause: YES
- Non-explicit predatory: YES
- Flagged keywords:
train AI/models,input license,feedback,competing model ban
Clause: train AI/models
we may process any User Content to improve our services and/or develop new products and services (including without limitation for our internal business purposes and/or for other customers). You hereby expressly authorise and consent to us: (i) using and storing User Content that is not personal data to develop and improve our machine-learning and artificial-intelligence technologies; and (ii) processing and storing such User Content outside of the jurisdiction where you are using the Services.
Clause: input license
You shall (or shall procure and ensure, if you are not the owner of the User Content) that we and our affiliates are granted an unconditional, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully transferable, sub-licensable, perpetual, worldwide licence, to access, use, host, modify, communicate, reproduce, adapt, make derivative works of, publish, perform, and/or distribute any User Content, and/or authorise any of the foregoing, in any format and on any platform, either now known or hereinafter invented. You further grant us an unconditional, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully transferable, sub-licensable, perpetual, worldwide licence to use your user name(s), image(s), and likeness(es) to identify you as the source of any User Content.
Clause: moral-rights waiver (not separately concept-tagged)
you hereby waive (and/or shall procure and ensure the same): (a) any rights to prior inspection or approval of any marketing or promotional materials related to User Content; (b) any and all rights of privacy or publicity; (c) moral rights as defined under the Copyright Act 2021 of Singapore, the rights described in Article 6bis of the Berne Convention for Protection of Literary and Artistic Works 1886, or any other rights of a similar nature.
Clause: feedback
we may store your User Feedback, we shall own all right, title, and interest in and to such User Feedback, and we may use such User Feedback however we choose without any obligation or payment to you. You shall do, execute, or procure to be done and executed all such further acts, deeds, things, and documents as may be necessary to assign all rights, title, and interest in and to such User Feedback to us.
Clause: competing model ban
use any information, data, or content (including without limitation the Outputs) made available via the Services to develop or improve any products or services (including without limitation any models) that compete with or are similar in functionality to the Services (or any aspect thereof).
Clause: Non-commercial Use restriction (not separately concept-tagged)
You acknowledge and agree that our Services (including without limitation any Outputs) are solely for your personal learning, research, and experimental purposes. You shall not, without our prior written consent, use our Services (including without limitation any Outputs) for any commercial purposes.
2026-04-09
All flagged clauses unchanged from 2025-11-11 — only the “Alibaba”→“Qwen” corporate rebrand and clause renumbering changed.