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This provision operationalizes OpenAI's content governance framework by establishing a categorical restriction on certain high-risk use cases. The restriction applies prospectively to all model interactions and represents a material condition of service access.
Users are prohibited from requesting model assistance with weapons development, critical infrastructure targeting, or synthesis of dangerous biological or chemical agents, even where legitimate purposes might exist. Requests within this category will not be fulfilled by the model, regardless of framing or stated intent.
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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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"We don't want our models to be used to create content that could be used to cause real-world harm. This includes providing real uplift to people seeking to cause significant loss of life, e.g. those seeking to synthesize dangerous chemicals or bioweapons, even if it's probably for a legitimate reason (the risk simply being too high).— Excerpt from OpenAI's Usage Policies
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This provision operationalizes OpenAI's content governance framework by establishing a categorical restriction on certain high-risk use cases. The restriction applies prospectively to all model interactions and represents a material condition of service access.
Users are prohibited from requesting model assistance with weapons development, critical infrastructure targeting, or synthesis of dangerous biological or chemical agents, even where legitimate purposes might exist. Requests within this category will not be fulfilled by the model, regardless of framing or stated intent.
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