“All Content that violates any applicable law or regulation. Content promoting high-risk illegal activities (weapons development, illegal substances, scams, gambling, pseudo-pharmaceuticals, plagiarism, etc.).”
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This establishes a broad baseline prohibition tied to all applicable laws and regulations, covering a wide range of potentially unlawful Content.
Interpretive note: The excerpt consists of noun phrases without an explicit operative verb in the quoted text. The prohibition is inferred as the primary reading given the document type. The enumerated examples of high-risk illegal activities are recorded in omitted_material rather than the canonical claim to preserve a single proposition.
You may not upload or share Content that violates any applicable law or regulation, or that promotes high-risk illegal activities.
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"All Content that violates any applicable law or regulation. Content promoting high-risk illegal activities (weapons development, illegal substances, scams, gambling, pseudo-pharmaceuticals, plagiarism, etc.).Excerpt from Hugging Face's Content Policy
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This establishes a broad baseline prohibition tied to all applicable laws and regulations, covering a wide range of potentially unlawful Content.
You may not upload or share Content that violates any applicable law or regulation, or that promotes high-risk illegal activities.
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