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.
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This provision directly addresses synthetic media and deepfake generation, which is an area of active legislative and regulatory development in the U.S. and EU, and establishes that such use constitutes a prohibited activity under the agreement.
Interpretive note: The document does not define the threshold between prohibited deceptive impersonation and permitted uses such as clearly labeled satire or parody involving real individuals, which may require case-by-case assessment.
Individuals whose likenesses or identities are used by third parties through NVIDIA NIM in violation of this provision have a basis for reporting the violation to NVIDIA, though the document does not specify a complaint mechanism for affected third parties.
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"You may not use the Services to generate content that impersonates any real person, living or deceased, in a deceptive or misleading manner, or to create synthetic media that falsely depicts real individuals without their consent.Excerpt from NVIDIA NIM's NVIDIA AI Foundation Models AUP
REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision engages the FTC Act's prohibition on deceptive practices, state-level deepfake statutes including those in California, Texas, and New York, and the EU AI Act's provisions on AI-generated synthetic content and transparency …
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This provision directly addresses synthetic media and deepfake generation, which is an area of active legislative and regulatory development in the U.S. and EU, and establishes that such use constitutes a prohibited activity under the agreement.
Individuals whose likenesses or identities are used by third parties through NVIDIA NIM in violation of this provision have a basis for reporting the violation to NVIDIA, though the document does not specify a complaint mechanism for affected third parties.
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