Terms of Service for Minds

Last Updated: May 9, 2026

By creating an account or using the services, the user agrees to these Terms of Service ("Terms"). If the user does not agree, the services should not be used.

1. Who We Are

We are Art of X UG (haftungsbeschränkt), Goethestr. 59, 10625 Berlin, Germany.

2. The Services

We provide tools for creativity and AI-assisted workflows. All content generated by Minds and AI assistants on our platform is produced by artificial intelligence. Minds are not real people, and their outputs do not represent genuine communications from any natural person. Core features include:

• User Accounts: For managing personal data and content.
• Flows: Collaborative workspaces where users can organize ideas and work with AI assistants on creative tasks.
• Minds: A gallery of AI creative companions with unique personalities and skills, including system, premium, and community-shared Minds. All Mind interactions are AI-generated. (Earlier versions of the platform referred to these companions as "Sparks"; the term "Minds" supersedes "Sparks" in these Terms and across the platform.)
• My Minds: Tools for users to create, train, and share their own personal AI models.
• Groups & Group Grounding: Tools to assemble multiple Minds into synthetic groups, panels, or audiences, optionally grounded in publicly available statistical and demographic distribution data (see Section 4, "Group Grounding").
• Content Uploads: The ability to upload voice, text, and image content for use in Flows and for AI training.
• Sharing: Features to share Minds and content with others.

A more detailed description of the services is available in our user guide. The services may change or be discontinued at any time.

3. Eligibility & Accounts

• Users must be at least 18 years old.
• The user is responsible for their account and for keeping credentials confidential.
• We may suspend or terminate accounts for violations of these Terms or applicable law.

4. Acceptable Use

The user will not: (a) violate law or third-party rights; (b) upload illegal, harmful, or infringing content; (c) attempt to gain unauthorized access or disrupt the services; (d) reverse engineer or misuse the services or APIs; (e) spam or abuse sharing features.

When using automated collection features (including auto setup for Minds), the user confirms they have all necessary rights and permissions to collect, process, and reuse information about each submitted person or entity. The user must only submit: (i) information they have the right to use; (ii) links or content that are publicly available or otherwise authorized for such use; and (iii) must not submit unlawful, sensitive (e.g., health, political views), or data about minors. Art of X UG only provides tooling that processes publicly available information; the user remains solely responsible and liable for the data they choose to collect, store, or process through the services.

Voice Synthesis and Cloning Restrictions

The user must not upload or use voice recordings to create synthetic voices of individuals without their explicit, documented consent. Creating voice clones for impersonation, fraud, deception, or any non-consensual purpose is strictly prohibited. The user represents and warrants that they have obtained all necessary rights and consents from any individual whose voice is used to train a Mind or generate synthetic speech. Violations may result in immediate account termination and may be reported to relevant authorities.

AI-Generated Image Restrictions

The user must not use image generation features to create: (a) images depicting real, identifiable individuals without their explicit consent; (b) images depicting minors in any context; (c) non-consensual intimate or sexual imagery; (d) content that infringes trademarks, copyrights, or other intellectual property rights; (e) images intended to deceive, defraud, or spread misinformation (including deepfakes); (f) violent, hateful, or illegal content. The user is solely responsible for ensuring compliance with all applicable laws regarding AI-generated imagery.

Group Grounding and Public Distribution Data

When creating a Group or using Group-level features (such as Group Grounding, group covers, panels, or synthetic-audience tools), the platform may incorporate publicly available statistical, demographic, and market-research distribution data — for example, census-style population aggregates, labour-market statistics, industry benchmarks, or results retrieved from public web sources — to ground synthetic groups in plausible real-world distributions. The user acknowledges and agrees that:

(a) Distribution data is processed in aggregate, statistical form and is not used to identify, profile, target, or simulate any specific identifiable natural person.

(b) Where the user supplies inputs to drive Group Grounding (including links, search queries, demographic targets, seed personas, or biographical details), the user warrants they have all rights necessary to submit those inputs under applicable data-protection, image, intellectual-property, and other laws, and that the inputs do not concern minors or special categories of personal data (Art. 9 GDPR) without a valid legal basis and documented consent.

(c) Group-grounded outputs are AI-generated synthetic content within the meaning of Art. 50(4) of the EU AI Act and must not be represented as the views, statements, decisions, or actions of any real, identifiable individual or organisation.

(d) Art of X UG provides only the tooling that processes publicly available aggregate information; the user remains solely responsible and liable for the inputs they choose to submit, for compliance with applicable law in their jurisdiction, and for any downstream use of group-grounded outputs.

For details on the categories of distribution data ingested, the legal bases relied upon, and retention periods, see Section 4 of our Privacy Notice.

5. User Content and License

• The user retains ownership of content uploaded or created ("User Content").
• The user grants us a worldwide, non-exclusive, transferable, sublicensable, royalty-free license to host, store, copy, modify, process, analyze, display, and distribute User Content as necessary to provide, improve, secure, and operate the services (including backups, content moderation, embeddings, and model evaluation), and to comply with law.
• If content is shared publicly or with others, the user grants us the rights necessary to deliver that sharing.
• The user represents that they have all rights to grant the foregoing and that their User Content does not infringe rights or violate law.

6. AI Features and Model Training

• We use third-party AI providers (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, ElevenLabs, Black Forest Labs) to process prompts, generate outputs, create embeddings, synthesize voice, and generate images. Use of AI features may be subject to those providers' terms and policies. A complete list of AI service providers is maintained in our Privacy Notice.
• User interactions (including prompts, files, metadata) may be used for model quality, safety, and evaluation in accordance with our Privacy Notice and these Terms.
• Users can opt-in to contribute their User Content to improve generalized datasets and models. If a user does not opt in, their User Content will not be included in generalized model training. Content created within a team account or shared in team-specific Flows is automatically excluded from training general models.
• Outputs are generated content; they may be inaccurate or inappropriate. The user is responsible for evaluating and using outputs.

Ownership of AI-Generated Outputs

Subject to compliance with these Terms, users retain rights to AI-generated outputs (including text, images, and audio) created through their use of the services. We make no claim to ownership of such outputs. However, the user acknowledges that: (a) similar outputs may be generated for other users; (b) outputs may be subject to third-party AI provider terms; (c) the user is solely responsible for ensuring their use of outputs complies with applicable laws and does not infringe third-party rights.

6A. EU Artificial Intelligence Act Transparency

This section addresses our obligations and your rights under Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 June 2024 laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (the "EU AI Act").

6A.1 AI System Disclosure

Minds is an AI-powered platform. All Minds, AI assistants, and automated content generators on the platform are artificial intelligence systems. No Mind is a real person, and no Mind output constitutes a genuine communication from the individual whose personality, voice, or communication style a Mind may simulate. By using the Services, you acknowledge that you are interacting with an AI system, not a natural person (Art. 50(1) EU AI Act).

We inform each user at the point of first interaction with any Mind or AI assistant that the interaction is with an AI system. This notification is provided clearly and at the latest at the time of the first interaction.

6A.2 Machine-Readable Marking of AI-Generated Content

All AI-generated outputs on the platform, including text, audio, and image content, are marked in a machine-readable format as artificially generated or manipulated content in accordance with Art. 50(2) of the EU AI Act. This marking is embedded using recognised technical standards and is designed to be interoperable, robust, and reliable to the extent technically feasible. The marking enables downstream recipients and automated systems to identify the content as AI-generated.

6A.3 Synthetic and Simulated Content (Deep Fakes)

Certain Minds are designed to simulate the communication style, voice, or likeness of real individuals. Content generated by such Minds, as well as content produced by group-grounded panels and synthetic audiences, constitutes synthetic content within the meaning of Art. 50(4) of the EU AI Act.

We disclose the artificial nature of such content within the platform. If you share, publish, or distribute any Mind-generated or group-grounded content outside of the Minds platform, you are responsible for clearly disclosing that the content has been artificially generated or manipulated. This disclosure must be made in a manner that is clearly visible to the recipient and, where technically feasible, must include the machine-readable provenance information embedded by the platform.

You must not represent any Mind output, group-grounded simulation, or panel result as a genuine communication, opinion, or decision from the person, organisation, or population whose style, likeness, or distribution the Mind or group simulates. Doing so constitutes a violation of these Terms and may also violate applicable law.

6A.4 B2B and Enterprise Use

If you use the Services in a business or enterprise context, including Mind panels, group-grounded simulations, AI-generated surveys, or synthetic-audience tools for research, analysis, or decision-making, you acknowledge that:

(a) The outputs are AI-generated and do not represent the views or statements of real individuals.

(b) You are responsible for your own compliance with the EU AI Act and any other applicable regulations, including conducting any required conformity assessments, maintaining adequate human oversight, and providing transparency disclosures to your own end users and stakeholders.

(c) Minds does not warrant that AI-generated outputs are suitable for any particular regulatory, legal, or compliance purpose. You should independently verify any AI-generated insights before relying on them for material decisions.

6A.5 Your Obligations

By using the Services, you agree to:

(a) Not remove, alter, or circumvent any AI-generated content markings or provenance metadata applied by the platform.

(b) Maintain all AI disclosure labels when sharing content third-partyly.

(c) Not represent AI-generated content as human-created content.

(d) Comply with all applicable provisions of the EU AI Act as they relate to your use of the Services.

Violation of these obligations may result in suspension or termination of your account in accordance with Section 15 of these Terms.

7. Payment, Plans, and Billing (Stripe)

• We offer a free tier and a paid subscription ("Premium"). Plan limits may apply (e.g., flows/Minds).
• Subscriptions are billed via Stripe. By subscribing, the user authorizes recurring charges until cancellation.
• Prices, taxes, and features may change. Users will be notified of material changes as required by law.
• The subscription can be managed or canceled at any time via the billing portal. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period; no refunds for partial periods unless required by law.
• We may offer promotions or trials; additional terms may apply.

8. Intellectual Property; Feedback

• We and our licensors own all rights in the services, software, documentation, and models (excluding User Content).
• By providing feedback, the user grants us a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free license to use said feedback to improve the services.

9. Privacy and Security

• We use Supabase and other providers for authentication and storage. We implement reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect data. No system is 100% secure.
• The processing of personal data is described in our Privacy Notice. Our services also use cookies as further detailed in our Privacy Notice. By using the services, the user acknowledges and understands such processing as described in our Privacy Notice.

10. Data Retention, Deletion, and Model Unlearning

• A user may request deletion of their account and associated User Content. The data will be deleted from active systems and backups in accordance with our retention schedules and legal obligations.
• After deletion, the user's data will not be used for training new generalized models. For existing models, we will take reasonable steps to prevent future use of the data (including retraining or suppression) where technically and commercially feasible.

11. Third-Party Services

Third-party services (e.g., Stripe, AI providers, storage/CDN) are subject to their terms and privacy policies. We are not responsible for third-party services.

12. Beta, Experimental, and Availability Disclaimer

The services are offered on an "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE" basis, including experimental or beta features. We do not warrant accuracy, reliability, uptime, or fitness for a particular purpose.

13. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law: (a) we will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, punitive, or exemplary damages; and (b) our total liability for any claim will not exceed the amounts paid to us by the user in the 12 months preceding the event giving rise to the claim, or €50 if the user has paid nothing.

14. Indemnity

The user will defend and indemnify us against claims arising from their User Content, their use of the services, or their violation of these Terms or law.

15. Suspension and Termination

We may suspend or terminate accounts or access for any breach, risk to the services, fraud, or legal requirement. A user may stop using the services at any time.

16. Changes to the Services or Terms

We may modify the services and these Terms. If we make material changes, users will be provided notice (e.g., in-app or email). Continued use after changes constitutes acceptance.

17. Export and Sanctions

The user represents they are not prohibited from using the services under applicable export control and sanctions laws and will not use the services in restricted jurisdictions.

18. Right of Withdrawal (EU Consumers)

EU consumers have the statutory right to withdraw from contracts within fourteen days without giving any reason. The withdrawal period is fourteen days from the day of contract conclusion.

Withdrawal Instructions:

To exercise your right of withdrawal, you must inform us (Art of X UG (haftungsbeschränkt), Goethestr. 59, 10625 Berlin, Germany, Email: [email protected]) of your decision to withdraw from this contract by a clear statement (e.g., a letter sent by post or email).

To meet the withdrawal deadline, it is sufficient for you to send your communication concerning your exercise of the right of withdrawal before the withdrawal period has expired.

Effects of Withdrawal:

If you withdraw from this contract, we shall reimburse to you all payments received from you, including delivery costs (with the exception of supplementary costs resulting from your choice of a type of delivery other than the least expensive type of standard delivery offered by us), without undue delay and in any event not later than 14 days from the day on which we are informed about your decision to withdraw from this contract.

Early Performance:

If you requested to begin the performance of services during the withdrawal period, you shall pay us an amount which is in proportion to what has been provided until you have communicated to us your withdrawal from this contract, in comparison with the full coverage of the contract.

Expiry of Right of Withdrawal:

The right of withdrawal expires in the case of a contract for the provision of services if we have fully performed the service and only began performance after you gave your express consent and at the same time confirmed your knowledge that you will lose your right of withdrawal upon complete performance of the contract by us.

19. Governing Law and Venue

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG). Exclusive venue is Berlin, Germany, except where mandatory law provides otherwise for consumers.

For consumers: Mandatory legal provisions of the country in which the consumer has their habitual residence remain unaffected.

20. Dispute Resolution

The European Commission provides a platform for online dispute resolution (ODR), which you can find at https://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr.

We are not obligated and generally not willing to participate in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board.

21. Severability

If individual provisions of these Terms are or become invalid or unenforceable, the validity of the remaining provisions shall remain unaffected.

22. Contact

Questions: [email protected]