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REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This policy engages the EU AI Act, which establishes obligations for providers and deployers of general-purpose AI models and high-risk AI systems; compliance obligations vary depending on how NIM is deployed and the risk classification of the use case. The FTC Act's prohibition on unfair or deceptive practices is relevant to provisions restricting deceptive AI-generated content and impersonation. Sector-specific frameworks including HIPAA for healthcare and FINRA and SEC …

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The agreement establishes a list of prohibited uses that apply to all users of NVIDIA NIM and related AI products, including restrictions on generating harmful, deceptive, or illegal content and on using AI outputs to train competing models. Users who violate these terms may have their access suspended or terminated, potentially without advance notice, which could affect business-critical workflows built on the platform. You can review the full prohibited use list on NVIDIA's agreements page at…

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Summary

This is NVIDIA's Acceptable Use Policy for its NIM AI inference platform and related AI products, setting out what users are and are not permitted to do when building applications using NVIDIA's AI models and APIs. The policy prohibits a specific list of uses including generating illegal content, facilitating violence or weapons development, impersonating individuals, bypassing AI safety controls, and using outputs to train competing AI models without authorization. If you or your organization uses NVIDIA NIM, review the prohibited use list carefully before deploying the service in any application, as violations can result in immediate account suspension.

Technical / Legal Breakdown

This document governs the acceptable use of NVIDIA NIM (AI inference microservices) and related AI products under NVIDIA's enterprise software terms, establishing conditions under which users may access and deploy AI models and APIs. The agreement states that users may not use the services for prohibited purposes including generating content that violates applicable law, facilitating weapons of mass destruction, bypassing AI safety measures, or engaging in deceptive practices, and the terms authorize NVIDIA to suspend or terminate access for violations. The agreement asserts broad discretion for NVIDIA to determine what constitutes a violation and to act on that determination without prior notice, which is operationally distinct from frameworks that require notice-and-cure periods before termination. The policy engages the EU AI Act, which imposes obligations on providers and deployers of AI systems depending on risk classification, and may require evaluation under FTC Act standards regarding unfair or deceptive practices in AI-generated content. Compliance teams deploying NIM in regulated sectors including financial services, healthcare, or critical infrastructure should assess whether their specific use cases align with both NVIDIA's enumerated permitted uses and applicable sector-specific AI governance requirements.

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High — 3 provisions

Prohibited Use: Weapons of Mass Destruction and Harmful Content

Users are prohibited from using NVIDIA NIM to generate instructions or content related to weapons capable of mass casualties, including biological, chemical, nuclear, or radiological weapons.

Added May 12, 2026 Rare
Prohibition on Training Competing AI Models

Users are not allowed to take the outputs generated by NVIDIA's AI services and use them to build or improve a competing AI model unless NVIDIA has given written permission.

Added May 12, 2026 Rare
Prohibition on Deceptive Impersonation Using AI

Users cannot use NVIDIA's AI services to create fake content that misleadingly presents itself as being from or depicting a real person, including deepfakes or synthetic media of real individuals who have not consented.

Added May 12, 2026 Rare

Medium — 3 provisions

Prohibition on Bypassing AI Safety Controls

Users are not permitted to attempt to disable or work around any of NVIDIA's built-in content filters or safety restrictions within its AI services.

Added May 12, 2026 Rare
Termination and Suspension Without Prior Notice

NVIDIA can cut off your access to its AI services at any time without warning if it decides you have broken the rules or pose a risk, and this decision is entirely at NVIDIA's discretion.

Added May 12, 2026 Rare
Prohibition on Illegal Content Generation

Users are prohibited from using NVIDIA's AI services to create content that breaks any applicable law, including defamatory, obscene, fraudulent, or copyright-infringing material.

Added May 12, 2026 Rare