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This prohibition restricts a broad range of commercial activities, including building AI-powered products that could be seen as competing with Anthropic's own offerings.
Interpretive note: The excerpt appears to be a fragment of a list item rather than a complete standalone clause; the prohibition verb ('may not' or similar) is not visible in the excerpt itself and is inferred from the context of an acceptable use list. Confidence is medium on that basis.
You are prohibited from using the Services to develop competing products, train competing AI models, or resell the Services.
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"To develop any products or services that compete with our Services, including to develop or train any artificial intelligence or machine learning algorithms or models or resell the Services.— Excerpt from Anthropic's Anthropic API Terms
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This prohibition restricts a broad range of commercial activities, including building AI-powered products that could be seen as competing with Anthropic's own offerings.
You are prohibited from using the Services to develop competing products, train competing AI models, or resell the Services.
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