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This provision restricts competitive and reverse-engineering uses of the service, which may be of particular relevance to AI researchers, developers, and companies in the technology sector, and interacts with EU software protection and interoperability rights under the Software Directive.
Interpretive note: EU Directive 2009/24/EC provides non-waivable reverse engineering rights for interoperability that may limit enforceability of this clause as applied to certain technical activities; scope is legally uncertain.
The agreement states that content submitted to OpenAI services may be used to provide and improve services, which may include AI model training depending on applicable settings and account type. European users retain GDPR-based rights to access, correct, and delete personal data held by OpenAI, and the EU contracting entity is OpenAI Ireland Limited. You can exercise data subject rights including deletion and data export through OpenAI's privacy request portal at https://privacy.openai.com.
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You agree not to (and not to allow any third party to): (i) decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, attempt to derive the source code of, or decrypt the Services; (ii) make any modification, adaptation, improvement, enhancement, translation or derivative work from the Services; (iii) violate any a...
You may not access or use the Services for purposes of developing or offering competitive products or services. You may not reverse engineer the Services or the Assets. You may not use automated tools to access, interact with, or generate Assets through the Services. You may not resell or redistribu...
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"You may not: (i) use the Services to develop or improve a competing product or service; (ii) reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise attempt to discover the source code or underlying components of the Services; or (iii) use automated means to access or interact with the Services except through the API as permitted by OpenAI.— Excerpt from OpenAI's OpenAI EU Terms of Use
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This provision restricts competitive and reverse-engineering uses of the service, which may be of particular relevance to AI researchers, developers, and companies in the technology sector, and interacts with EU software protection and interoperability rights under the Software Directive.
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