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This provision establishes OpenAI's operational boundary regarding the use of its services for coordinated inauthentic activity and synthetic media generation. The restriction functions as a service use limitation designed to prevent the platform from being deployed for large-scale disinformation campaigns or coordinated deceptive operations.
Users operating under these terms are contractually prohibited from using OpenAI services to generate fake personas, create propaganda, or establish inauthentic social media profiles. Violation of this provision constitutes a breach of the service usage agreement and may result in service termination or other enforcement actions specified in the terms.
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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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"Don't use our services to create coordinated inauthentic behavior or influence operations, including creating fake personas, generating propaganda designed to influence political discourse, or creating fake social media profiles.— Excerpt from OpenAI's Usage Policies
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This provision establishes OpenAI's operational boundary regarding the use of its services for coordinated inauthentic activity and synthetic media generation. The restriction functions as a service use limitation designed to prevent the platform from being deployed for large-scale disinformation campaigns or coordinated deceptive operations.
Users operating under these terms are contractually prohibited from using OpenAI services to generate fake personas, create propaganda, or establish inauthentic social media profiles. Violation of this provision constitutes a breach of the service usage agreement and may result in service termination or other enforcement actions specified in the terms.
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