“Attempting to or assisting anyone to reverse engineer, decompile or discover the source code or underlying components of our Services, including our models, algorithms, or systems...”
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This prohibition protects OpenAI's proprietary technology by preventing users from extracting or reconstructing the internal workings of its Services.
Interpretive note: The excerpt appears to be a fragment of a list item rather than a complete sentence; it does not contain explicit prohibitory language such as 'You may not'. The prohibition is inferred from context as an item within an acceptable use policy list. The primary proposition stated is consistent with that reading.
Users are prohibited from any attempt to reverse engineer, decompile, or discover the source code or underlying components of OpenAI's Services, and from assisting others in doing so.
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"Attempting to or assisting anyone to reverse engineer, decompile or discover the source code or underlying components of our Services, including our models, algorithms, or systems...Excerpt from OpenAI's EU Terms of Use
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This prohibition protects OpenAI's proprietary technology by preventing users from extracting or reconstructing the internal workings of its Services.
Users are prohibited from any attempt to reverse engineer, decompile, or discover the source code or underlying components of OpenAI's Services, and from assisting others in doing so.
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