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Toxic Degeneration Disclosure

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What it is

The document discloses that Command R and Command R+ models may generate toxic text including obscenities, sexually explicit content, and content that stereotypes groups, despite safeguards, particularly in extended multi-turn conversations.

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Why it matters (compliance & governance perspective)

This disclosure establishes that Cohere's safeguards do not eliminate the risk of toxic output generation, which has direct implications for customers deploying Command R in consumer-facing applications, particularly those accessible to minors or in regulated content environments.

Consumer impact (what this means for users)

The agreement discloses that Command R models may generate toxic text, sexually explicit content, and content that stereotypes groups of people, even with safeguards in place, with heightened risk in long multi-turn conversations. Customers building consumer-facing applications are responsible for implementing additional content filtering appropriate to their deployment context.

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Models have been trained on a wide variety of text from many sources that contain toxic content (see Luccioni and Viviano, 2021). As a result, models may generate toxic text. This may include obscenities, sexually explicit content, and messages which mischaracterize or stereotype groups of people based on problematic historical biases perpetuated by internet communities (see Gehman et al., 2020 for more about toxic language model degeneration). We have put safeguards in place to avoid generating harmful text, and while they are effective (see the 'Safety Benchmarks' section above), it is still possible to encounter toxicity, especially over long conversations with multiple turns.

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Document information
Document
Cohere Responsible Use Policy
Entity
Cohere
Document last updated
May 12, 2026
Tracking information
First tracked
July 9, 2026
Last verified
July 9, 2026
Record ID
CA-P-014387
Document ID
CA-D-00830
Evidence Provenance
Source URL
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Content hash (SHA-256)
06ab5e02539ada114dce05fa235995dca7762c7cb5d195703306b5ef9bf69fc6
Analysis generated
July 9, 2026 05:27 UTC
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Citation Record
Entity: Cohere
Document: Cohere Responsible Use Policy
Record ID: CA-P-014387
Captured: 2026-07-09 05:27:24 UTC
SHA-256: 06ab5e02539ada11…
URL: https://conductatlas.com/platform/cohere/cohere-responsible-use-policy/provision/CA-P-014387/toxic-degeneration-disclosure/
Accessed: Sept. 13, 2026
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Frequently Asked Questions

What does Cohere's Toxic Degeneration Disclosure clause do?

This disclosure establishes that Cohere's safeguards do not eliminate the risk of toxic output generation, which has direct implications for customers deploying Command R in consumer-facing applications, particularly those accessible to minors or in regulated content environments.

How does this clause affect you?

The agreement discloses that Command R models may generate toxic text, sexually explicit content, and content that stereotypes groups of people, even with safeguards in place, with heightened risk in long multi-turn conversations. Customers building consumer-facing applications are responsible for implementing additional content filtering appropriate to their deployment context.

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