“Create, compile or distribute disinformation or manipulative content; harassing, hateful or defamatory content; pornographic or exploitative content; unsolicited advertising or promotional...”
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This prohibition covers a wide range of harmful or abusive content categories, restricting how the services may be used to produce or spread such material.
Interpretive note: The excerpt is truncated after 'unsolicited advertising or promotional', so additional prohibited content categories may exist in the full clause that are not captured in the canonical claim.
Readers are prohibited from using Perplexity AI's services to create, compile, or distribute any of the listed categories of harmful or abusive content.
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You may not use Third-Party Content displayed using our web-search feature to (i) copy, store, archive, cache, or create a database of the Outputs, (ii) redistribute, resell, or sublicense the Third-Party Content...
"Create, compile or distribute disinformation or manipulative content; harassing, hateful or defamatory content; pornographic or exploitative content; unsolicited advertising or promotional...Excerpt from Perplexity AI's Perplexity Acceptable Use Policy
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This prohibition covers a wide range of harmful or abusive content categories, restricting how the services may be used to produce or spread such material.
Readers are prohibited from using Perplexity AI's services to create, compile, or distribute any of the listed categories of harmful or abusive content.
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