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This provision establishes a foundational usage boundary that aligns the service terms with legal obligations under federal child protection statutes. The absolute prohibition structure removes discretion in enforcement and applies uniformly across all user categories and use cases.
Users are prohibited from requesting, prompting, or otherwise directing the service to generate CSAM or sexualized content depicting minors. Violation of this provision authorizes OpenAI to suspend or terminate user access and may result in reporting to law enforcement authorities as required by applicable law.
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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 provision establishes a foundational usage boundary that aligns the service terms with legal obligations under federal child protection statutes. The absolute prohibition structure removes discretion in enforcement and applies uniformly across all user categories and use cases.
Users are prohibited from requesting, prompting, or otherwise directing the service to generate CSAM or sexualized content depicting minors. Violation of this provision authorizes OpenAI to suspend or terminate user access and may result in reporting to law enforcement authorities as required by applicable law.
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