Google Generative AI Prohibited Use Policy

This document sets out what Google Gemini cannot be used for. Users are prohibited from using the service to deceive others — including by presenting AI-generated content as solely human-created, impersonating real people, or spreading false claims about elections or health. High-stakes automated decisions affecting people's rights in areas like employment or healthcare must have human oversight. Google Gemini can make exceptions for educational, scientific, artistic, or public-benefit purposes, but that decision rests entirely with Google Gemini.

This policy establishes the prohibited uses of Google Gemini, defining hard boundaries on conduct the service may not be used to facilitate. It imposes absolute prohibitions on categories including child sexual abuse and exploitation, violent extremism and terrorism, non-consensual intimate imagery, harassment and interpersonal abuse, fraud and deception, and circumvention of the platform's own safety systems. It further prohibits automated decisions with material detrimental impact on individual rights in high-risk domains — including employment, healthcare, finance, and legal — absent human supervision. A discretionary exception mechanism permits Google Gemini to allow otherwise prohibited conduct where educational, documentary, scientific, or artistic considerations apply, or where substantial public benefit outweighs harm.

As an individual user, this document means you are prohibited from using Google Gemini to harass, defraud, or deceive others; to produce non-consensual intimate imagery; to advance violent extremism; or to use others' personal data or biometrics without legally-required consent. You are also prohibited from attempting to bypass or manipulate Google Gemini's safety filters. If you are using the service to support a consequential decision affecting someone's rights in employment, healthcare, finance, or legal contexts through automated means, human supervision is required — meaning you must not remove human review from that process. You cannot rely on a prohibited use being permitted unless Google Gemini has explicitly granted an exception based on educational, documentary, scientific, artistic, or substantial public-benefit grounds.