[bduerst]

This is the TOS specifically for two of the managed services - it says so right in the link "Google Cloud Machine Learning Group and Google Cloud Machine Learning Engine"

These specific ML-as-a-service products are pretty easy to plug into and resell to third parties, which is why the wording is so restrictive in the TOS.

Many of Google Clouds other ML products, which typically are more customizeable and powerful, do not have these restrictions. The way your comment is worded makes it seem like this restriction is on all of Google Clouds ML products, but it's not.

[sytelus]

I don’t understand these restrictions. Why is reselling bad? I would think people would still prefer first party services and even if they don’t you still get utilization in any case. Sure, there can be some outlier bad cases but these kind of restrictions can be a complete turnoff for enterprise users who just don’t want to take any legal risk of breaking TOS.

[pd0wm]

It might have not been clear from my comment, but I was specifically referring to those ML as a service. The TPUs seem to fall under GCP which has a less restrictive ToS.

I do understand they don’t want to make it too easy to resell their research. But having access to all your source code, training data and documentation is a bit extreme. Why can’t they just tell you to stop selling your product?

[ahjones]

From the link:

12.1 The following terms apply only to current and future Google Cloud Platform Machine Learning Services specifically listed in the "Google Cloud Platform Machine Learning Services Group" category on the Google Cloud Platform Services Summary page

Those services are (from https://cloud.google.com/terms/services):

  - Cloud AutoML
  - Cloud Text-to-Speech
  - Dialogflow Enterprise Edition
  - Google Cloud Data Labeling
  - Google Cloud Natural Language
  - Google Cloud Speech-to-Text
  - Google Cloud Video Intelligence
  - Google Cloud Vision

[bduerst]

Right - that is the Google Cloud Machine Learning Group, which are managed ML-as-a-service products.

If you read the list, you will see they're highly specialized, out of the box ML products and super easy to resell, hence the TOS restrictions.