It comes out of service the day your withdrawal arrives.
Deleting every copy takes longer than that, because backups run to a horizon. You get told both dates and we do not let the shorter one stand in for the longer one.
Four things, and the fourth is the one that matters.
- 01Find everything that saw your workEvery session, and every built thing made from one. If we cannot find them all, we cannot honour a withdrawal, which is why the record of what went into what is kept from the first day rather than assembled when somebody asks.
- 02Take it out of service immediatelyThe day it arrives. Not at the end of a term, not at the next release, and not when it is convenient.
- 03Delete the raw and the derived alikeThe recording and what was made from it. Rebuild what can be rebuilt without you, and withdraw what cannot.
- 04Confirm to you, with the true completion dateIncluding backups. The real one. Telling somebody their material is gone when it is not would be the easiest lie in this business, and it is the one that would end us.
The withdrawal itself stays on file, because a record that deletes its own withdrawals cannot show it honoured one.
A model cannot be un-trained, so we do not pretend otherwise.
Taking a way of working out of service is straightforward: it stops being available and nothing new runs it. If a record has been used to train a model, that is a different problem, and the honest answer is that the weights cannot be unpicked.
So the obligation is written to match what is actually possible: no new deployments from the day the withdrawal lands, and the material removed at the next revision of that model, with the date stated before you ever agree to it. That is a real limit and you are entitled to know it before you decide, rather than after.
This is exactly why consent for training a model is being written as its own separate agreement rather than folded into the others. It has a different shape, so it gets a different yes.
A change of ownership is a reason to withdraw, on its own.
You agreed to terms offered by particular people. If this company changes hands, that is a fair moment to decide whether you still want to be in it — and the right to walk at that moment is being written into the agreement rather than left to whoever ends up holding it.