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This prohibition protects the technical integrity and proprietary nature of Perplexity AI's services by barring a wide range of techniques aimed at uncovering or circumventing their underlying architecture.
Interpretive note: The excerpt is truncated after 'source code', suggesting further prohibited conduct may follow in the full clause that is not captured in the canonical claim.
Readers are prohibited from attempting to reverse engineer, jailbreak, or use adversarial techniques against Perplexity AI's services, or from trying to access their source code by any means.
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Customer may not reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble any portion of the output generated using an NVIDIA proprietary software development kit (e.g., NVIDIA CUDA toolkit), including their development tools and compilers.
You agree not to modify, display, adapt, translate, loan, distribute, prepare derivative works from, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble or otherwise attempt to derive source code from the Software.
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"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...— Excerpt from Perplexity AI's Perplexity Acceptable Use Policy
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This prohibition protects the technical integrity and proprietary nature of Perplexity AI's services by barring a wide range of techniques aimed at uncovering or circumventing their underlying architecture.
Readers are prohibited from attempting to reverse engineer, jailbreak, or use adversarial techniques against Perplexity AI's services, or from trying to access their source code by any means.
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