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Groq explicitly forbids both technical circumvention of protective systems and indirect policy violations achieved through model prompting, closing off attempts to exploit the AI layer to evade restrictions.
Interpretive note: The phrase 'if any' attached to safety mechanisms is notable—it is an omitted qualifier recorded in omitted_material rather than stated in the canonical claim, which focuses on the primary prohibition.
Users are prohibited from bypassing any service safeguard—technical or policy-based—whether directly or by crafting prompts that cause the model to act in violation of Groq's policies.
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You may not display any personal contact, banking, or peer-to-peer payment information, whether in relation to you or any other person (for example, names, home addresses or postcodes, telephone numbers, email addresses, URLs, credit/debit card...)
Bypass or ignore instructions contained in our robots.txt file that controls automated access to portions of our Services;
"to intentionally circumvent any aspect of the Cloud Services or AI Model Services, including abuse protections or safety mechanisms, if any, or to prompt models to act in a manner that violates our policies...Excerpt from Groq's Acceptable Use Policy
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Groq explicitly forbids both technical circumvention of protective systems and indirect policy violations achieved through model prompting, closing off attempts to exploit the AI layer to evade restrictions.
Users are prohibited from bypassing any service safeguard—technical or policy-based—whether directly or by crafting prompts that cause the model to act in violation of Groq's policies.
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