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The provision establishes operational boundaries around permissible uses of Netflix content by restricting its application to machine learning workflows. This addresses Netflix's interest in controlling how its proprietary content and service data inform the development of AI systems by third parties or competing platforms.
Users who access Netflix content agree not to use that content or their interaction data with the service for any stage of machine learning development or testing. This restricts use cases where subscribers or developers might otherwise extract or analyze content for model training purposes.
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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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"engage in any of the foregoing in connection with the use, creation, development, modification, prompting, fine-tuning, training, testing, benchmarking or validation of any machine learning tool, model, system, algorithm, product or other technology.— Excerpt from Netflix's Netflix Account and Content Policies
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The provision establishes operational boundaries around permissible uses of Netflix content by restricting its application to machine learning workflows. This addresses Netflix's interest in controlling how its proprietary content and service data inform the development of AI systems by third parties or competing platforms.
Users who access Netflix content agree not to use that content or their interaction data with the service for any stage of machine learning development or testing. This restricts use cases where subscribers or developers might otherwise extract or analyze content for model training purposes.
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