Captured before automated identity checks (Oct 14, 2026): accurate as of its capture on Sep 20, 2026; our capture on Oct 21, 2026 found the same text, but its identity was not checked by them.
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“provide chatbot services without disclosing to end users that they are interacting with AI (unless it is obvious from the context)”
“Make automated decisions about individuals that materially impact them (e.g., decisions regarding their employment, healthcare, finances, housing or insurance) or where errors could be dangerous”
“Copy, distribute, rent, lease, lend, license, transfer or make derivative works of the Services or any related materials or use any of the foregoing on a service bureau or similar basis”
“Create or make available any products or services competitive with, similar to, or that would otherwise be a substitute for the Services...except with Perplexity's express prior written permission”
“Create, compile or distribute disinformation or manipulative content; harassing, hateful or defamatory content; pornographic or exploitative content; unsolicited advertising or promotional...”
“You must not access, deploy or use the Services to conduct or facilitate any activity that poses a significant threat to individuals or society (whether or not it is expressly illegal...”
This document sets out the rules for what you can and cannot do with Perplexity AI's services. You cannot use the services to make high-stakes automated decisions about people, build competing products, reverse-engineer the technology, or produce disinformation, hateful, or exploitative content. If you build a chatbot using Perplexity AI, you must tell end users they are talking to AI, and you cannot pass off AI-generated content as solely human-made.
Perplexity AI's Acceptable Use Policy establishes a set of binding prohibitions governing how users and deployers may interact with and build upon its services. Core restrictions bar unlawful, fraudulent, or rights-violating use; high-stakes automated decision-making that materially affects individuals or poses danger; creation of competitive or substitute products without express prior written permission; and secondary exploitation of the services through copying, redistribution, or derivative works. The Policy mandates transparency obligations—requiring disclosure that end users are interacting with AI in chatbot deployments (absent obvious context) and prohibiting misrepresentation of AI-generated content as solely human-created—and prohibits targeted deployment to users under 13. Perplexity AI may suspend or terminate access upon non-compliance and reserves the right to modify the Policy at any time.
For an individual user, this Policy means that a wide range of harmful, deceptive, and exploitative uses are prohibited outright—including using the services to make automated decisions that materially affect people's lives, creating disinformation or hateful content, and misrepresenting AI-generated content as human-created. Users who encounter a chatbot built on Perplexity AI's services are entitled to be told they are interacting with AI, unless that is already obvious from the context. If a user violates the Policy, Perplexity AI may suspend or terminate their access.
Which mapped governance frameworks each document engages, tied to the specific provisions that engage them.
We withheld clauses we had published from this document. Each withholding is recorded in our correction log:
“provide chatbot services without disclosing to end users that they are interacting with AI (unless it is obvious from the context)”
“Make automated decisions about individuals that materially impact them (e.g., decisions regarding their employment, healthcare, finances, housing or insurance) or where errors could be dangerous”
“Copy, distribute, rent, lease, lend, license, transfer or make derivative works of the Services or any related materials or use any of the foregoing on a service bureau or similar basis”
“Create or make available any products or services competitive with, similar to, or that would otherwise be a substitute for the Services...except with Perplexity's express prior written permission”
“Create, compile or distribute disinformation or manipulative content; harassing, hateful or defamatory content; pornographic or exploitative content; unsolicited advertising or promotional...”
“You must not access, deploy or use the Services to conduct or facilitate any activity that poses a significant threat to individuals or society (whether or not it is expressly illegal...”
“Create content that you subsequently claim was created solely by humans, or otherwise misrepresent the provenance of information or content”
“Decompile, distill, jailbreak, subject to prompt injection or other adversarial attacks, reverse engineer, or disassemble the Services or otherwise attempt to discover the source code...”
“Provide services targeted to users under the age of 13”
“You must not access, deploy or use the Services to conduct or facilitate any activity that is unlawful, fraudulent, or that violates the rights of others.”
“Subject to the terms of your agreement with Perplexity or authorized third-party distributor (as applicable), your failure to comply with this Policy may result in suspension or termination, or both, of the Services.”
“We may modify this Policy at any time to reflect changes in our practices, technology, legal requirements, or other factors.”
Every distinct legal provision identified in this document. Featured provisions appear above with analysis.
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