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The prohibition establishes operational boundaries on permissible service usage and defines classes of activity that fall outside the scope of authorized use. This restriction governs which use cases the service provider will support and potentially conditions continued service access on compliance with these categories.
Interpretive note: The precise boundary between permissible use of outputs and prohibited use for model development may be ambiguous in edge cases such as fine-tuning third-party open-source models using Cohere-generated data.
The updated policy removes all substantive acceptable use requirements that were previously posted and enforceable. Users no longer have a referenced standard defining what conduct is prohibited on the platform. The removal of enforcement procedures means users cannot verify what conduct may trigger access restriction, suspension, or termination. The elimination of the child safety and sexually explicit content prohibitions from the posted policy creates uncertainty about whether these protections remain in effect through other terms or have been abandoned.
View change record →Users are required to ensure their applications and use cases do not fall within the prohibited categories of violence, hate speech, fraud, or privacy violations. Non-compliance with this restriction may result in service suspension or termination under the terms' broader enforcement mechanisms.
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You may not automatedly crawl or query the Services for any purpose or by any means (including, without limitation, screen and database scraping, spiders, robots, crawlers and any other automated activity with the purpose of obtaining information from the Services) unless you have received prior exp...
relate to transactions involving (f) the promotion of hate, violence, racial or other forms of intolerance that is discriminatory or the financial exploitation of a crime... (i) involve offering or receiving payments for the purpose of bribery or corruption.
You must not, and must not allow others to: Facilitate illegal or harmful activity through the End User Services; Cause harm to us or others through the End User Services;
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"Certain use cases, such as violence, hate speech, fraud, and privacy violations, are strictly prohibited.— Excerpt from Cohere's Cohere Usage Policy
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The prohibition establishes operational boundaries on permissible service usage and defines classes of activity that fall outside the scope of authorized use. This restriction governs which use cases the service provider will support and potentially conditions continued service access on compliance with these categories.
Users are required to ensure their applications and use cases do not fall within the prohibited categories of violence, hate speech, fraud, or privacy violations. Non-compliance with this restriction may result in service suspension or termination under the terms' broader enforcement mechanisms.
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