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This provision establishes that prompt engineering or other technical methods used to elicit policy-violating outputs from Groq models constitutes a policy violation, extending acceptable use obligations to the method of interaction rather than solely the resulting output.
Interpretive note: The phrase if any regarding safety mechanisms introduces ambiguity about whether such mechanisms are guaranteed to exist, and the boundary between legitimate prompt engineering and prohibited circumvention is not defined.
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Compare across platforms →"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, this AUP, or the Groq Services AgreementExcerpt from Groq's Acceptable Use Policy
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This provision establishes that prompt engineering or other technical methods used to elicit policy-violating outputs from Groq models constitutes a policy violation, extending acceptable use obligations to the method of interaction rather than solely the resulting output.
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