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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.
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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.
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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"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. Section 2256 and related federal law, with enforcement authority held by the Department of Justice and NCMEC. Prohibitions on violent extremism content interact with counter-terrorism frameworks. The prohibition on disinformation and deceptive activities engages the FTC Act, and intellectual property restrictions engage US copyright and trademark law. EU users are subject to the Digital Services Act's content moderation obligations for platform operators. (2) GOVERNANCE EXPOSURE: Medium. The extension of responsibility to third-party facilitation is operationally significant for developers and API operators who build consumer-facing applications on Groq infrastructure, as it creates an affirmative obligation to implement downstream content controls. The breadth of terms such as offensive, invasive, and harmful introduces interpretive uncertainty in enforcement. (3) JURISDICTION FLAGS: EU platform operators face Digital Services Act obligations regarding illegal content removal and due diligence requirements that interact with this provision. The prohibition on non-consensual intimate imagery engages state-level laws across multiple US jurisdictions. Child safety obligations are non-negotiable under US federal law regardless of contractual framing. (4) CONTRACT AND VENDOR IMPLICATIONS: API operators and developers building on Groq should review their own terms of service and acceptable use policies to ensure downstream coverage of the prohibited categories listed here. Failure to implement adequate third-party use controls may constitute facilitation under this provision and trigger enforcement action by Groq. (5) COMPLIANCE CONSIDERATIONS: Developers and platform operators should assess whether their content moderation systems adequately address the specific prohibited categories listed in this provision. Trust and safety teams should document the controls in place for third-party access to Groq-powered features.
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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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