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The use restrictions prohibit a range of competitive and derivative activities, including training competing AI models using the Services, which directly limits how businesses can use API access in developing their own AI capabilities.
Interpretive note: The term 'competing product or service' is not defined in the agreement, creating interpretive uncertainty about the restriction's scope in relation to adjacent AI development activities.
Business customers are contractually prohibited from using the API to train competing AI models, build competing services, resell API access, or reverse engineer the Services; violation of these restrictions can trigger account suspension and termination under Section I.
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The use restrictions prohibit a range of competitive and derivative activities, including training competing AI models using the Services, which directly limits how businesses can use API access in developing their own AI capabilities.
Business customers are contractually prohibited from using the API to train competing AI models, build competing services, resell API access, or reverse engineer the Services; violation of these restrictions can trigger account suspension and termination under Section I.
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