The policy prohibits Customers from intentionally bypassing abuse protections or safety mechanisms in Groq's services, and from using prompts to cause models to behave in ways that violate the AUP or Groq Services Agreement.
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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.
Under this clause, Customers and Authorized Users are prohibited from using prompts or other technical approaches to cause Groq's AI models to generate outputs that would otherwise be prohibited under the policy, regardless of whether the method is novel or not explicitly anticipated by the policy.
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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
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: The prohibition on circumventing safety mechanisms engages the EU AI Act's requirements for general-purpose AI model providers to maintain technical safeguards and for deployers to preserve those safeguards in operation.
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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.
Under this clause, Customers and Authorized Users are prohibited from using prompts or other technical approaches to cause Groq's AI models to generate outputs that would otherwise be prohibited under the policy, regardless of whether the method is novel or not explicitly anticipated by the policy.
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