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The provision defines the operational boundaries for acceptable use of Hugging Face infrastructure and services. By specifying prohibited technical activities and abuse vectors, it establishes enforcement criteria that Hugging Face applies to content moderation and account management decisions.
Interpretive note: The threshold for 'excessive or irrelevant data' in repositories is not defined, creating interpretive ambiguity for legitimate large-scale ML dataset hosting use cases.
Users operating on the platform must ensure their content and usage patterns comply with these categories or face content removal and potential account restrictions. The provision requires that users refrain from specified technical abuses, metric manipulation, and circumvention practices as conditions of service access.
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"Restricted Content includes clear violations of our Content Policy or applicable laws, and is subject to immediate action. Content designed to disrupt, damage, or gain unauthorized access to systems or devices. Content that attempts to transmit or generate malicious code (e.g., malware, trojans, viruses). Abuse or interference with Hugging Face services, including: Using unauthorized bot APIs or remote management tools. Hosting excessive or irrelevant data in repositories. Using tools like Cloudflare Tunnel, TOR, proxies, VNC, Chrome Remote Server, etc., to bypass restrictions. Incentivizing manipulation of Hugging Face Hub metrics (e.g., exchanging rewards for likes). Cryptomining practices.— Excerpt from Hugging Face's Hugging Face Content Policy
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The provision defines the operational boundaries for acceptable use of Hugging Face infrastructure and services. By specifying prohibited technical activities and abuse vectors, it establishes enforcement criteria that Hugging Face applies to content moderation and account management decisions.
Users operating on the platform must ensure their content and usage patterns comply with these categories or face content removal and potential account restrictions. The provision requires that users refrain from specified technical abuses, metric manipulation, and circumvention practices as conditions of service access.
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