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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.
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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Prohibited User Content includes...material that...involves commercial activities and/or sales without prior written consent from Chegg such as contests, sweepstakes, barter, advertising, or pyramid schemes...
Don't create or share defamatory or libelous content that could damage someone's reputation or falsely portray them in a harmful way.
Content that is unoriginal, plagiarized, or copied from another individual or organization.
"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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