Acceptable Use Policy

This Acceptable Use Policy forms part of the Terms. You may not use, facilitate, or allow use of the Services for the activities below.

1. Illegal activity and rights violations

• Violating law, court orders, sanctions, export controls, or regulatory requirements.
• Infringing intellectual-property, privacy, publicity, confidentiality, contractual, or other rights.
• Processing data obtained through theft, deception, unlawful scraping, or unauthorized access.
• Facilitating trafficking, exploitation, illegal goods, or criminal services.

2. Child safety and sexual exploitation

• Creating, possessing, distributing, soliciting, or facilitating child sexual abuse material.
• Grooming, sexualizing, exploiting, or endangering minors.
• Generating non-consensual intimate imagery or sexual content involving any minor.

We may report apparent child exploitation to appropriate authorities and preservation organizations as required by law.

3. Malware and cyber abuse

• Deploying malware, ransomware, spyware, credential stealers, destructive code, botnets, or denial-of-service attacks.
• Phishing, social engineering, credential theft, unauthorized intrusion, persistence, or exfiltration.
• Generating or modifying malicious code with intent to harm or gain unauthorized access.
• Scanning, exploiting, or testing systems without authorization.

Good-faith defensive security research is permitted only when authorized, appropriately scoped, and conducted to avoid harm.

4. Fraud, deception, and impersonation

• Scams, financial fraud, identity theft, fabricated evidence, or deceptive commercial practices.
• Impersonating a person or organization without authorization in a manner likely to deceive or harm.
• Undisclosed synthetic media used to manipulate elections, markets, public safety, or individual rights.
• Automated spam, fake reviews, engagement manipulation, or coordinated inauthentic behavior.

5. Privacy, surveillance, and biometrics

• Stalking, doxxing, unlawful surveillance, or tracking individuals without lawful authority.
• Face recognition, biometric identification, or emotion inference in violation of law or without required consent.
• Inferring highly sensitive traits for discriminatory, coercive, or exploitative purposes.
• Building or enriching unlawful databases of personal information.

6. Weapons, violence, and critical harm

• Developing, acquiring, or deploying chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, or unlawful weapons.
• Providing operational assistance for terrorism or targeted violent wrongdoing.
• Fully autonomous targeting or control of weapons.
• Operating critical infrastructure, vehicles, medical devices, industrial systems, or emergency systems without appropriate human oversight and validated safety controls.

7. High-impact and regulated decisions

You may not use Output as the sole basis for decisions about employment, housing, education, credit, insurance, healthcare, legal services, immigration, benefits, or law enforcement. Any permitted use must include lawful basis, meaningful human review, testing, transparency, and appeal where required.

8. Platform and resource abuse

• Circumventing limits, license checks, account controls, or model restrictions.
• Cryptocurrency mining, unauthorized distributed computing, denial-of-service activity, or resource use that degrades the Services.
• Reselling or hosting Services or Models without authorization.
• Automated account creation, token theft, or abuse of free or trial resources.

9. Enforcement

We may investigate and take proportionate action, including warnings, content restriction, model restriction, rate limiting, suspension, or termination. We may consider intent, severity, recurrence, harm, remediation, and legal obligations.