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This clause defines prohibited conduct categories and establishes operational boundaries for service deployment. The restriction applies to a defined class of use cases involving deceptive or manipulative content generation, which affects permissible application architectures.
Interpretive note: The boundary between permissible persuasive content creation and prohibited influence operations may require case-by-case interpretation, particularly for legitimate political communication use cases.
Users may not apply OpenAI services to create synthetic personas for influence campaigns, generate political propaganda, establish inauthentic social accounts, or generate impersonation content. Violation of this restriction constitutes breach of the usage agreement.
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You may not automatedly crawl or query the Services for any purpose or by any means (including, without limitation, screen and database scraping, spiders, robots, crawlers and any other automated activity with the purpose of obtaining information from the Services) unless you have received prior exp...
relate to transactions involving (f) the promotion of hate, violence, racial or other forms of intolerance that is discriminatory or the financial exploitation of a crime... (i) involve offering or receiving payments for the purpose of bribery or corruption.
You must not, and must not allow others to: Facilitate illegal or harmful activity through the End User Services; Cause harm to us or others through the End User Services;
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This clause defines prohibited conduct categories and establishes operational boundaries for service deployment. The restriction applies to a defined class of use cases involving deceptive or manipulative content generation, which affects permissible application architectures.
Users may not apply OpenAI services to create synthetic personas for influence campaigns, generate political propaganda, establish inauthentic social accounts, or generate impersonation content. Violation of this restriction constitutes breach of the usage agreement.
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