You are not allowed to use AI21's AI outputs or services to build or improve a competing AI product or model.
Developers and AI researchers who use AI21's API for benchmarking, evaluation, or model comparison workflows may be in breach of the Terms of Service, potentially resulting in account termination and loss of access.
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Compare across platforms →This restricts a significant business use case — using AI outputs to improve or benchmark alternative AI systems — and could be violated inadvertently by developers using outputs for model evaluation or research.
(1) REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: This clause is primarily a matter of contract law and intellectual property. It may engage competition law scrutiny under EU competition law (Art. 101/102 TFEU) and U.S. antitrust law (Sherman Act Section 1) if interpreted as an unlawful restraint of trade, particularly in the context of AI model interoperability. It also interacts with fair use doctrine under U.S. copyright law for research and evaluation uses of AI outputs. (2)
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