Generating child sexual abuse material using Cohere's models or API is a strict and absolute prohibition under this policy.
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This is a categorical prohibition with no exceptions; any application or output that generates CSAM would constitute an immediate and severe breach of the Terms of Service and would independently constitute criminal conduct in virtually all jurisdictions.
This prohibition directly protects minors from harm by categorically barring any use of Cohere's models to produce child sexual abuse material.
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"Certain use cases, such as violence, hate speech, fraud, and privacy violations, are strictly prohibited. [The policy identifies generation of child sexual abuse material as a categorical prohibited use.]— Excerpt from Cohere's Cohere Usage Policy
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: Generation of CSAM is a federal crime under 18 U.S.C. Chapter 110 in the United States and is criminalized in all EU member states and most jurisdictions globally. The NCMEC CyberTipline is the primary reporting mechanism in the US. This provision also engages COPPA and the EU's Directive on combating the sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children. Enforcement authority includes the DOJ, FBI, Homeland Security Investigations, and international equivalents. (2) GOVERNANCE EXPOSURE: High. This is the most unambiguous prohibition in the document. Any organization whose deployment results in CSAM generation faces not only API termination but potential criminal and civil liability independent of this policy. (3) JURISDICTION FLAGS: This prohibition applies globally without jurisdictional variation; CSAM is criminalized in all major jurisdictions. (4) CONTRACT AND VENDOR IMPLICATIONS: Procurement teams and platform operators deploying Cohere in contexts where users may attempt to generate such content should implement independent content moderation layers and reporting mechanisms. Reliance solely on Cohere's model-level safeguards is not a sufficient compliance posture for platforms with significant user-generated content. (5) COMPLIANCE CONSIDERATIONS: Organizations deploying Cohere in consumer-facing or user-generated content contexts should implement CSAM detection tools, establish NCMEC reporting protocols, and include explicit CSAM prohibitions in their own end-user terms of service.
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This is a categorical prohibition with no exceptions; any application or output that generates CSAM would constitute an immediate and severe breach of the Terms of Service and would independently constitute criminal conduct in virtually all jurisdictions.
This prohibition directly protects minors from harm by categorically barring any use of Cohere's models to produce child sexual abuse material.
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