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The provision establishes an operational boundary around permissible use of OpenAI's AI systems by restricting conduct that could impair legitimate oversight mechanisms. This serves to preserve the institutional capacity for monitoring and correction of advanced models.
Interpretive note: The terms 'legitimate principals' and 'meaningfully undermine' are not defined, and the practical boundary between permitted safety research and prohibited conduct is unclear from the document text alone.
Users operating under these terms are prohibited from undertaking actions designed to circumvent, obstruct, or materially weaken oversight and correction capabilities maintained by OpenAI or other legitimate principals. The restriction applies to any conduct that would meaningfully undermine such oversight mechanisms.
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engage in any of the foregoing in connection with any use, creation, development, modification, prompting, fine-tuning, training, testing, benchmarking or validation of any artificial intelligence or machine learning tool, model, system, algorithm, product or other technology ("AI Tool").
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The provision establishes an operational boundary around permissible use of OpenAI's AI systems by restricting conduct that could impair legitimate oversight mechanisms. This serves to preserve the institutional capacity for monitoring and correction of advanced models.
Users operating under these terms are prohibited from undertaking actions designed to circumvent, obstruct, or materially weaken oversight and correction capabilities maintained by OpenAI or other legitimate principals. The restriction applies to any conduct that would meaningfully undermine such oversight mechanisms.
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