43 Total
31 High severity
12 Medium severity
0 Low severity

Key Facts

What does a violation of Vercel AI's Acceptable Use Policy constitute?
Vercel AI establishes that a violation of its Acceptable Use Policy constitutes a material breach of the Agreement.
What does Vercel AI prohibit regarding bioweapons, chemical weapons, and weapons of mass destruction?
Vercel AI prohibits users from using its services to develop bioweapons, chemical weapons, or weapons of mass destruction.
What does Vercel AI prohibit regarding electoral campaigns?
Vercel AI prohibits users from creating, sending, uploading, displaying, storing, processing, or transmitting content that is, or is intended to be, disseminated in electoral campaigns.
What does Vercel AI prohibit regarding model extraction or stealing attacks?
Vercel AI prohibits users from conducting model extraction or stealing attacks against its services.
What does Vercel AI prohibit regarding online services directed at children?
Vercel AI prohibits users from operating online services directed at children through its services.
What does Vercel AI prohibit regarding child sexual exploitation or abuse?
Vercel AI prohibits content that includes child sexual exploitation or abuse.
What does Vercel AI prohibit regarding competing products or services?
Vercel AI prohibits users from developing a similar or competing product or service using Vercel AI's services or Vercel's confidential information.
What does Vercel AI prohibit regarding representing AI-generated output?
Vercel AI prohibits users from representing that AI-generated output is human-generated without reliance on AI.
What does Vercel AI prohibit regarding nonconsensual intimate imagery?
Vercel AI prohibits users from sharing or threatening to share nonconsensual intimate imagery, including through the use of synthetic media or deepfakes.
Does Vercel AI prohibit sharing nonconsensual intimate imagery through synthetic media or deepfakes?
Vercel AI prohibits users from sharing or threatening to share nonconsensual intimate imagery, including through the use of synthetic media or deepfakes.
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Summary

This document sets out the rules for what you cannot do with Vercel AI's services. The prohibited uses include creating weapons-related content, electoral campaign material, health data processing, child-directed services, deepfakes, and attempting to build a competing product. If Vercel AI believes you are breaking these rules, it can cut off your access immediately.

Analysis

Vercel AI's Acceptable Use Policy establishes a set of absolute prohibitions on how users may interact with and deploy its services, covering categories including weapons of mass destruction development, electoral campaign content, child-directed services, child sexual exploitation material, nonconsensual intimate imagery (including deepfakes), Protected Health Information as defined under 45 C.F.R. Section 160.103, model extraction or stealing attacks, competitive product development using Vercel AI's services or confidential information, resale or transfer of access to third parties, and misrepresentation of AI-generated output as human-generated. Any violation of these prohibitions constitutes a material breach of the Agreement, activating the full range of contractual remedies. Vercel AI may restrict, suspend, or terminate access immediately upon notice where it reasonably believes a user or that user's end users are in violation. The Policy's prohibitions apply at the point of intent—not merely confirmed use—as illustrated by the electoral content restriction, which covers content intended for campaign dissemination.

What this means for you

As an individual user, this document directly limits how you may use Vercel AI's services across a broad range of content types and activities. You may not process any Protected Health Information through the services, use the platform to develop a competing product, misrepresent AI-generated outputs as human-generated, or create content intended for electoral campaigns—even if that content is never actually used in a campaign. Any of these actions constitutes a material breach of your Agreement with Vercel AI, and Vercel AI may cut off your access immediately upon giving notice if it reasonably believes a violation has occurred, without waiting for a dispute to be resolved.

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