Acceptable Use Policy
Policy Enforcement
If we discover that your usage violates our policies, we may issue a warning requesting a change in your behavior, adjust the safety settings of your in-product experience, or suspend your access to our Sites and Services.
AI and Responsibility
AI models are powerful but may produce inaccurate, harmful, or biased information. We encourage users to:
- Verify AI-generated responses independently.
- Report any inaccuracies, harmful content, or biased outputs to us so we can address them.
What to Do (Permitted Uses)
We encourage you to use our Services for the benefit of society, including:
- Research and development,aligned with ethical AI principles.
- Accessibility enhancements,such as image captioning for visually impaired users.
- Creative and educational initiatives,that respect intellectual property rights.
- AI model training and fine-tuning,provided it aligns with this AUP and applicable laws.
What Not to Do (Prohibited Uses)
We do not allow our Services to be use in connection with any of the following:
- Illegal or harmful activities,including generating misleading, deceptive, or fraudulent content, or violating laws.
- Manipulate or misrepresent content,such as selectively editing or summarizing videos to create false narratives, deepfake summaries, or misleading transcripts.
- Compromise security or privacy,including attempting to extract personally identifiable information (PII), confidential data, or trade secrets from AI outputs or training datasets without proper authorization.
- Violate intellectual property rights,such as using copyrighted videos, summaries, or datasets without permission or in a manner that infringes upon the rights of others.
- Enable harmful bias, discrimination, or unethical AI,including training models or generating summaries that reinforce harmful stereotypes or unfairly disadvantage individuals or groups.
- Bypass security features or misuse system resources,such as attempting to reverse-engineer, manipulate, or automate the service for unauthorized commercial gain, excessive data extraction, or denial-of-service attacks.
- Train AI models in an unethical manner,such as using datasets in violation of licensing agreements or creating deceptive or harmful AI tools or ignoring performance and accuracy metrics or error rates during training.
- Misrepresent use case for AI model training,such as explicitly train a model outside of its intended usage and application.
- Deploy AI in sensitive applications without oversight,such as deploying models without appropriate safety measures and outside of regulatory compliance, using AI-generated summaries or trained models in high-risk domains like law enforcement, healthcare, or financial decision-making without sufficient human review.
- Deploy AI with known flaws ignoring transparency,such as deploying poorly performing or unintentional biased models without sharing its limits and key training metrics on performance and accuracy.
How to Comply (Manner and Method)
In addition to adhering to the above, you must:
- Comply with all applicable laws and regulations.
- Comply with ourTerms of Service , including all terms and policies referenced therein such as this Acceptable Use Policy.
- Upload and disseminate only data that you own all required rights to.
- Use commercially reasonable efforts to prevent unauthorized access to or use of the Services.
- Keep passwords and all other login information confidential.
- Monitor and control all activity conducted through your Account in connection with the Services.
- Promptly notify us if you become aware of or reasonably suspect any illegal or unauthorised activity or a security breach involving your Accounts or Organization, including any loss, theft, or unauthorised disclosure or use of a username, password or Account.
- Comply in all respects with all applicable terms of the third-party applications, including any that you access or subscribe to in connection with the Services.
- Ensure that the email address associated with your Account remains current and valid (i.e. that you maintain ongoing access to the inbox and are able to receive important notices at, and send messages from, that email address), and update the email address associated with your Account as necessary.
Additional Businesses Requirements
If your business is using or deploying our Services as part of providing regulated services (such as legal, medical, or financial advice), we require that you implement the additional safety measures listed below:
- Human-in-the-loop:Your services are reviewed by a qualified professional in that field as required by applicable law. You are responsible for the accuracy and appropriateness of the services.
- Disclosure and transparency:You must disclose that you are using our Services as appropriate to ensure transparency for the end user.
- Automated services:If you are using our Services as part of an automated service where people are interacting directly with our services, you must disclose to your users that they are interacting with AI (as applicable) rather than a human.