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The provision establishes a behavioral boundary for platform use by restricting content generation outputs to exclude specific categories of harmful depiction. This operates as a content governance mechanism defining prohibited use cases within the service's operational scope.
Users are required to refrain from generating, editing, or deploying imagery of real people through the service when such use would reasonably facilitate harassment, abuse, defamation, or harm. The restriction applies to both famous and non-famous individuals and encompasses both original generation and manipulation of existing images.
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You may not use Shopify's Services to send spam, unsolicited communications, or engage in harassment of any person. This includes using Shopify's email or messaging tools to send bulk unsolicited messages to consumers who have not opted in to receive communications from you.
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.
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"Do not create or use imagery of real people, famous or otherwise, that could be used to harass, abuse, defame, or otherwise harm. Do not abuse the Editor to manipulate images of real people, famous or otherwise, in ways that could lead to harassment, abuse, or harm.— Excerpt from Midjourney's Midjourney Community Guidelines
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The provision establishes a behavioral boundary for platform use by restricting content generation outputs to exclude specific categories of harmful depiction. This operates as a content governance mechanism defining prohibited use cases within the service's operational scope.
Users are required to refrain from generating, editing, or deploying imagery of real people through the service when such use would reasonably facilitate harassment, abuse, defamation, or harm. The restriction applies to both famous and non-famous individuals and encompasses both original generation and manipulation of existing images.
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