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.
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This clause prohibits prompt injection, jailbreaking, or other technical methods designed to cause the AI to produce outputs that its safety controls would otherwise prevent, and violations constitute grounds for account termination.
Interpretive note: The document does not define whether authorized security research or red-teaming activities conducted by enterprise customers fall within the scope of prohibited circumvention.
Developers building applications on NIM who test the limits of the model's safety controls, even for red-teaming or security research purposes, may be at risk of violating this provision depending on how NVIDIA interprets 'circumvention.'
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"You may not use the Services to circumvent, disable, or otherwise interfere with safety-related features or restrictions of the Services, including content filtering mechanisms or usage restrictions.Excerpt from NVIDIA NIM's NVIDIA AI Foundation Models AUP
REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision engages the EU AI Act's requirements for general-purpose AI model providers to maintain technical safeguards and document their safety measures.
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This clause prohibits prompt injection, jailbreaking, or other technical methods designed to cause the AI to produce outputs that its safety controls would otherwise prevent, and violations constitute grounds for account termination.
Developers building applications on NIM who test the limits of the model's safety controls, even for red-teaming or security research purposes, may be at risk of violating this provision depending on how NVIDIA interprets 'circumvention.'
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