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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.
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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Do not generate images for political campaigns or to try to influence the outcome of an election. Do not generate images to spread misinformation or disinformation.
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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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