Perplexity Acceptable Use Policy

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.