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Output Accuracy Disclaimer and Reliance Prohibition

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The agreement requires users to evaluate Output for accuracy before use, prohibits reliance on Output as a sole factual source or substitute for professional advice, and expressly prohibits use of Output about a person for decisions with legal or material impact including credit, employment, housing, insurance, legal, and medical decisions.

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Why it matters (compliance & governance perspective)

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This provision establishes affirmative user obligations regarding Output evaluation and creates an express prohibition on high-stakes decisional use of Output concerning individuals. These obligations are operationally significant for any enterprise or professional deploying AI-generated content in decision-making workflows.

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⚠ Users who use Output in violation of this clause for high-stakes decisions about individuals may be subject to account termination and may face regulatory exposure under applicable civil rights and consumer protection laws outside of these terms

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Output may not always be accurate. You should not rely on Output from our Services as a sole source of truth or factual information, or as a substitute for professional advice. You must evaluate Output for accuracy and appropriateness for your use case, including using human review as appropriate, before using or sharing Output from the Services. You must not use any Output relating to a person for any purpose that could have a legal or material impact on that person, such as making credit, educational, employment, housing, insurance, legal, medical, or other important decisions about them.

Excerpt from OpenAI's Terms of Use

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Institutional analysis (regulatory & governance intelligence)

(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: The prohibition on using Output for credit, employment, housing, insurance, and similar decisions engages the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, Fair Housing Act, Title VII, and related civil rights statutes that govern automated …

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Provision details

Document information
Document
OpenAI Terms of Use
Entity
OpenAI
Date stated by the document
Jan. 1, 2026
As printed in OpenAI’s text (version CA-V-007346), not a ConductAtlas date.
Tracking information
First captured by ConductAtlas
March 7, 2026
Text quoted from version
CA-V-007346, captured Oct. 5, 2026
Document ID
CA-D-000009
Evidence Provenance
Source URL
Wayback Machine
Archived bytes SHA-256 (version CA-V-007346)
01c3b7047514580f0ab51670c70872c0998bed109144843b2a397d5c757ca918
Analysis generated
October 7, 2026 01:48 UTC
Methodology
Evidence
Excerpt not yet checked against a stored version
Citation Record
Entity: OpenAI
Document: OpenAI Terms of Use
Version: CA-V-007346
Captured: 2026-10-05 23:42:50 UTC
SHA-256: 01c3b7047514580f…
URL: https://conductatlas.com/platform/openai/openai-terms-of-use/output-accuracy-disclaimer-and-reliance-prohibition/
Accessed: Oct. 23, 2026
Permanent archival reference. Stable identifier suitable for legal filings, compliance documentation, and research citation.

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What does OpenAI's Output Accuracy Disclaimer and Reliance Prohibition clause do?

This provision establishes affirmative user obligations regarding Output evaluation and creates an express prohibition on high-stakes decisional use of Output concerning individuals. These obligations are operationally significant for any enterprise or professional deploying AI-generated content in decision-making workflows.

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