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The prohibition expressly covers data and model scraping as well as crawler use, which prevents users from extracting underlying model information or service data through automated means.
Interpretive note: The excerpt appears to be a fragment of a longer prohibited-use list; the primary prohibited conduct is clearly stated within the provided text.
The reader is prohibited from using technical methods—including scrapers, crawlers, or decompilation—to access, extract, or replicate any component of Writer's services.
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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.
Make any automated use of the App...Use any software, technology, or device to scrape, spider, or crawl the App or harvest or manipulate data
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"to reverse engineer, disassemble, decompile, translate, decode, scrape, or otherwise attempt to derive or improperly access or download any component of the Services (including through data or model scraping or the use of any crawler or other mechanism)— Excerpt from Writer's Writer Terms of Service
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The prohibition expressly covers data and model scraping as well as crawler use, which prevents users from extracting underlying model information or service data through automated means.
The reader is prohibited from using technical methods—including scrapers, crawlers, or decompilation—to access, extract, or replicate any component of Writer's services.
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