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.
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This provision establishes an absolute prohibition on using the AI service for weapons-related content generation, which creates clear grounds for account termination if violated and may overlap with legal obligations under export control and anti-terrorism frameworks.
Interpretive note: The document does not define the threshold at which content 'facilitates or encourages' weapons development, creating ambiguity for edge cases such as academic research or historical analysis.
Users whose applications inadvertently generate weapons-related content, even in research or academic contexts, risk account suspension under this provision; the scope of what qualifies as facilitating such content is not exhaustively defined in the document.
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"You may not use the Services to generate content or provide instructions that would facilitate or encourage the development, production, acquisition, or use of weapons of mass destruction, including biological, chemical, nuclear, or radiological weapons, or other weapons capable of mass casualties.Excerpt from NVIDIA NIM's NVIDIA AI Foundation Models AUP
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This provision establishes an absolute prohibition on using the AI service for weapons-related content generation, which creates clear grounds for account termination if violated and may overlap with legal obligations under export control and anti-terrorism frameworks.
Users whose applications inadvertently generate weapons-related content, even in research or academic contexts, risk account suspension under this provision; the scope of what qualifies as facilitating such content is not exhaustively defined in the document.
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