Stability AI Acceptable Use Policy

This document sets out what users are and are not allowed to do with Stability AI's products. It bans a wide range of harmful uses—from child exploitation material to manipulative AI techniques to building facial recognition databases without consent—and requires that users disclose when content is AI-generated and get professional review before offering AI-assisted health or other essential-services advice. Users must be at least 18 years old, and Stability AI can suspend or terminate access if it learns of a violation.

This Acceptable Use Policy establishes the conditions under which users may engage with Stability AI's technology, setting out a series of absolute prohibitions on high-risk AI applications and harmful content. It bars use of Stability AI technology for biometric-based categorization of sensitive personal characteristics, social scoring leading to detrimental treatment, subliminal or manipulative techniques that distort informed decision-making, and the creation or expansion of facial recognition databases without consent. The policy further prohibits a defined set of harmful content categories—including CSAM, hate and violence promotion, and content targeting protected attributes—while imposing affirmative disclosure requirements for AI-generated outputs and professional review requirements for essential-services advice. Enforcement is discretionary: Stability AI may suspend or terminate access upon learning of a violation, and it commits to reporting CSAM to appropriate authorities.

As an individual user, this policy directly limits how you can use Stability AI's technology: you cannot use it to produce hateful, exploitative, or manipulative content, to circumvent its built-in safeguards, or to build facial recognition databases without people's consent. If you deploy Stability AI outputs in any context involving medical or essential-services advice, you must have a qualified professional review the output and disclose that AI was used. If you are under 18—or under the higher minimum age required in your location—you are not permitted to use Stability AI technology at all.