The license prohibits users from generating certain categories of content with Stability AI models, including child sexual abuse material, weapons-related content, and content designed to deceive others, regardless of which license tier the user holds.
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These prohibitions apply to all licensees and flow downstream to end users of products built on self-hosted models, meaning deployers are responsible for enforcing these restrictions within their own platforms.
Interpretive note: The specific prohibited categories and their exact wording are not visible in the truncated document; this analysis is based on the known structure of Stability AI's published acceptable use policy as referenced by the page context.
All users of products built on Stability AI models, including end consumers of third-party applications, are indirectly subject to these content prohibitions; deployers who fail to enforce the acceptable use policy risk losing their license and creating liability for any prohibited outputs generated on their platform.
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These prohibitions apply to all licensees and flow downstream to end users of products built on self-hosted models, meaning deployers are responsible for enforcing these restrictions within their own platforms.
All users of products built on Stability AI models, including end consumers of third-party applications, are indirectly subject to these content prohibitions; deployers who fail to enforce the acceptable use policy risk losing their license and creating liability for any prohibited outputs generated on their platform.
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