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This restriction establishes a contractual limitation on permissible uses of Service outputs and information. The clause applies broadly to all derivative uses of Service-generated content, including non-commercial and research applications, which affects how users may repurpose or build upon outputs generated through the platform.
Instacart rewrote its entire Terms of Service, adding 367 new sentences including sections on AI-powered services, updated arbitration procedures, and revised data handling practices. The restructuring makes it harder to compare what changed because the entire document was reorganized.
View change record →Users are contractually prohibited from utilizing Service outputs or information to develop, enhance, or test AI systems or competing technologies under any use case, including open source and research contexts. This obligation applies as a condition of Service use and restricts downstream applications of outputs users generate or receive.
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You may not automatedly crawl or query the Services for any purpose or by any means (including, without limitation, screen and database scraping, spiders, robots, crawlers and any other automated activity with the purpose of obtaining information from the Services) unless you have received prior exp...
relate to transactions involving (f) the promotion of hate, violence, racial or other forms of intolerance that is discriminatory or the financial exploitation of a crime... (i) involve offering or receiving payments for the purpose of bribery or corruption.
You must not, and must not allow others to: Facilitate illegal or harmful activity through the End User Services; Cause harm to us or others through the End User Services;
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"You further agree that you will not use the Services or any information contained therein or obtained therefrom, including any output or other information derived from the Services, to directly or indirectly create, train, test, or improve any machine learning, large language, or artificial intelligence models, or similar or competing product, service, or technology (including for research purposes, open source, or other non-commercial use).— Excerpt from Instacart's Instacart Terms of Service
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This restriction establishes a contractual limitation on permissible uses of Service outputs and information. The clause applies broadly to all derivative uses of Service-generated content, including non-commercial and research applications, which affects how users may repurpose or build upon outputs generated through the platform.
Users are contractually prohibited from utilizing Service outputs or information to develop, enhance, or test AI systems or competing technologies under any use case, including open source and research contexts. This obligation applies as a condition of Service use and restricts downstream applications of outputs users generate or receive.
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