The policy prohibits Customers from using or facilitating third-party use of Groq services for illegal, harmful, discriminatory, deceptive, or offensive purposes, and includes specific prohibitions on child sexual abuse material, violent extremism, hate speech, harassment, non-consensual intimate imagery, and illegal sexually explicit content.
This analysis describes what Groq's agreement states, permits, or reserves. It does not constitute a legal determination about enforceability. Regulatory applicability and practical outcomes may vary by jurisdiction, enforcement context, and individual circumstances. Read our methodology
This provision extends Customer compliance obligations to third parties accessing Groq services through the Customer, creating a due diligence responsibility for API operators and platform developers who enable end-user access to Groq-powered features.
Interpretive note: Terms such as offensive, invasive, and harmful are not defined in the policy, creating interpretive ambiguity about the scope of enforcement.
Under this clause, Customers are contractually responsible for ensuring that neither they nor their Authorized Users or third parties access Groq services for any of the enumerated prohibited purposes. Customers who operate platforms that provide third-party access to Groq services bear a facilitation responsibility under the agreement.
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Compare across platforms →"Customer agrees not to, and not to facilitate or allow any third parties to, use the Cloud Services and AI Model Services: for any illegal, offensive, invasive, discriminatory, dangerous, harmful, infringing, defamatory, or fraudulent purpose; for any misrepresentation, misinformation, disinformation, or any misleading or deceptive activities; to violate or encourage violation of the legal rights of others, including privacy or intellectual property rights; for child sexual abuse or exploitation, violence, violent extremism or terrorism, hate speech, harassment, or non-consensual intimate imagery or sexually explicit content that is illegalExcerpt from Groq's Acceptable Use Policy
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: The prohibition on child sexual abuse material engages 18 U.S.C.
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This provision extends Customer compliance obligations to third parties accessing Groq services through the Customer, creating a due diligence responsibility for API operators and platform developers who enable end-user access to Groq-powered features.
Under this clause, Customers are contractually responsible for ensuring that neither they nor their Authorized Users or third parties access Groq services for any of the enumerated prohibited purposes. Customers who operate platforms that provide third-party access to Groq services bear a facilitation responsibility under the agreement.
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