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Cohere bars a broad category of information-manipulation conduct that can cause reputational, civic, and public-health harm.
Interpretive note: The excerpt contains an additional independent prohibition on attempting to manipulate public opinion on issues such as health and safety, which is recorded in omitted_material rather than merged into the canonical claim.
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 using Cohere Services to create or promote harmful misinformation, disinformation, defamatory or libelous content, or political propaganda.
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Gore, such as dismemberment, beheadings, mutilations, and exposed organs/bones/muscle
"Creation or promotion of harmful misinformation and disinformation, including defamatory or libelous content and political propaganda; attempting to manipulate public opinion on issues such as health, safety...Excerpt from Cohere's Usage Policy
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Cohere bars a broad category of information-manipulation conduct that can cause reputational, civic, and public-health harm.
Readers are prohibited from using Cohere Services to create or promote harmful misinformation, disinformation, defamatory or libelous content, or political propaganda.
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