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This prohibition restricts a broad category of commercial and research use, preventing users from leveraging the services to build or improve competing AI products.
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Users are prohibited from using Stability AI's services for any purpose that involves developing competing products or services, including AI and machine learning development or training.
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You may not display any personal contact, banking, or peer-to-peer payment information, whether in relation to you or any other person (for example, names, home addresses or postcodes, telephone numbers, email addresses, URLs, credit/debit card...)
Bypass or ignore instructions contained in our robots.txt file that controls automated access to portions of our Services;
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"You may not access or use...our Services...To develop products or services that compete with our Services, including to develop or train any artificial intelligence, machine learning algorithms, or models...Excerpt from Stability AI's Terms of Service
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This prohibition restricts a broad category of commercial and research use, preventing users from leveraging the services to build or improve competing AI products.
Users are prohibited from using Stability AI's services for any purpose that involves developing competing products or services, including AI and machine learning development or training.
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