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This restriction prevents users from leveraging Meta's Outputs to develop competitive AI products, protecting Meta's market position, and any such use requires Meta's explicit written approval.
The updated terms remove developer restrictions that previously applied to large-scale platforms, meaning companies with more than 700 million monthly active users can now access Meta's AI models without special permission. The terms also eliminate the restriction on EU developers accessing multimodal models and consolidate account management under either managed accounts or Meta accounts. Developers previously subject to these restrictions should review whether the updated terms now permit their use case.
View change record →The updated terms authorize Meta to retain user-submitted content if its systems flag the content for a potential policy violation, in addition to retention tied to legal compliance and contractual rights. This expands the circumstances under which content may be preserved without explicit time limits. Under the revised language, content retention decisions may now be driven by automated policy-violation flagging in addition to legal or contractual necessity. Developers integrating the Llama API should understand that flagged content may be retained indefinitely pending policy review.
View change record →The reader may not use Outputs from the Services to develop or improve a competing AI model or service unless Meta has provided prior written authorization.
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You will not use the Services to make payment(s) on an existing Affirm loan(s). Unless otherwise expressly permitted by Affirm, you will not use the Services for the purpose of payment for an existing loan(s) or line of credit from another institution.
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"you will not...use Outputs of the Services to train, fine-tune, distill, or otherwise improve or create any artificial intelligence or machine learning model that competes with Meta's models or services...without Meta's prior written authorization.— Excerpt from Meta's Llama API Terms of Service
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This restriction prevents users from leveraging Meta's Outputs to develop competitive AI products, protecting Meta's market position, and any such use requires Meta's explicit written approval.
The reader may not use Outputs from the Services to develop or improve a competing AI model or service unless Meta has provided prior written authorization.
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