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The provision establishes OpenAI's legal compliance obligations under the PROTECT Act and similar legislation, defining prohibited conduct and specifying the entity's reporting procedures to law enforcement authorities.
Users are prohibited from engaging in conduct related to CSAM under the terms, and the service provider is authorized to detect, investigate, and report such conduct to designated authorities without prior user notification.
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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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The provision establishes OpenAI's legal compliance obligations under the PROTECT Act and similar legislation, defining prohibited conduct and specifying the entity's reporting procedures to law enforcement authorities.
Users are prohibited from engaging in conduct related to CSAM under the terms, and the service provider is authorized to detect, investigate, and report such conduct to designated authorities without prior user notification.
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