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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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Customer may not reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble any portion of the output generated using an NVIDIA proprietary software development kit (e.g., NVIDIA CUDA toolkit), including their development tools and compilers.
You agree not to modify, display, adapt, translate, loan, distribute, prepare derivative works from, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble or otherwise attempt to derive source code from the Software.
You will comply with Service-specific notices if applicable, such as any warnings not to input sensitive or confidential information.
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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 OpenAI 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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