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This provision establishes OpenAI's operational boundary regarding political and electoral applications of its services. By categorizing influence operations as prohibited uses, the policy defines excluded use cases that the company does not authorize through its standard terms of service.
Users are restricted from deploying OpenAI's services to build influence operation infrastructure, generate division-focused content, create political advertising materials, or construct ideology-based targeting mechanisms. The terms require users to refrain from these specific applications as a condition of service access.
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Do not generate images for political campaigns or to try to influence the outcome of an election. Do not generate images to spread misinformation or disinformation.
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.
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"Influence operations — such as building tools designed to run influence operations, generating content designed to sow division or used for political ads, propaganda, or targeting strategies based on political ideology.— Excerpt from OpenAI's Usage Policies
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This provision establishes OpenAI's operational boundary regarding political and electoral applications of its services. By categorizing influence operations as prohibited uses, the policy defines excluded use cases that the company does not authorize through its standard terms of service.
Users are restricted from deploying OpenAI's services to build influence operation infrastructure, generate division-focused content, create political advertising materials, or construct ideology-based targeting mechanisms. The terms require users to refrain from these specific applications as a condition of service access.
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