Perplexity Acceptable Use Policy

This document is Perplexity AI's Acceptable Use Policy (AUP), which governs permitted and prohibited uses of Perplexity's AI-powered search and answer platform, operating alongside the company's Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The policy states that users must not use the service to generate content that facilitates violence, produces CSAM or sexual content involving minors, enables weapons of mass destruction, spreads disinformation, violates privacy, engages in illegal discrimination, or circumvents the platform's safety mechanisms, and the terms reserve to Perplexity the right to suspend or terminate access for violations. The AUP includes a broad prohibition on using the platform to 'undermine the integrity of elections' and to generate 'disinformation,' categories that lack precise definitional boundaries in the document and may create interpretive ambiguity in enforcement; the policy also explicitly prohibits using outputs to claim AI-generated content is human-generated in contexts that could deceive, which engages emerging AI transparency obligations. The policy engages the FTC Act regarding unfair or deceptive practices, COPPA given that the service is not directed at children under 13, and potentially the EU AI Act given Perplexity's international availability, as the AUP's prohibitions on high-risk AI outputs interact with EU AI Act obligations for providers of general-purpose AI systems. Compliance teams should note that the AUP explicitly states it may be updated and that continued use constitutes acceptance, which raises consent mechanism considerations under GDPR and CCPA for material policy changes.