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Cohere excludes high-stakes life-safety and critical-infrastructure use cases where a Service failure could produce catastrophic real-world consequences.
Interpretive note: The excerpt is item (1) of a numbered list; additional prohibited activity categories likely follow in the unquoted portion of the clause.
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 →Readers are prohibited from deploying Cohere Services in contexts where failure or misuse could reasonably be expected to cause the enumerated categories of serious harm.
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May harm the reputation of Tinder or its affiliates, meaning the uploading or sharing of content on the Tinder platform that is defamatory to Tinder or its affiliates or advocates misuse of the Service...
Political content, including for dissemination in electoral campaigns.
Gore, such as dismemberment, beheadings, mutilations, and exposed organs/bones/muscle
"Activities (1) where the use or failure of the Cohere Services could reasonably be expected to result in death, harm to psychological or physical health or safety, or severe environmental or property damage...Excerpt from Cohere's Usage Policy
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Cohere excludes high-stakes life-safety and critical-infrastructure use cases where a Service failure could produce catastrophic real-world consequences.
Readers are prohibited from deploying Cohere Services in contexts where failure or misuse could reasonably be expected to cause the enumerated categories of serious harm.
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