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The prohibition creates an affirmative obligation of AI disclosure, meaning users who deploy Writer-powered interactions must not allow those interactions to pass as human.
The updated terms establish clearer scope (these terms apply to free, trial, and paid versions; Enterprise is separate) and expand the list of prohibited uses. Users may no longer reverse engineer, scrape, or attempt to derive components of the Services; use the platform for competitive analysis or to develop competing products; or misrepresent AI-generated output as human-created. The terms also explicitly prohibit processing of HIPAA-regulated health information. Users can review the full updated terms to understand which specific uses are now restricted.
View change record →The reader is prohibited from deceiving account users or third parties about the AI nature of interactions or the AI origin of output produced by Writer.
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as such disclosure may be required by the order or requirement of a court, administrative agency or other governmental body, subject to the Receiving Party providing to the Disclosing Party reasonable written notice...
"you shall not hide or misrepresent to any users on your account or to any third party that they are interacting with an artificial intelligence system rather than a human, or misrepresent to anyone that the Output is human-generated.Excerpt from Writer's Terms of Service
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The prohibition creates an affirmative obligation of AI disclosure, meaning users who deploy Writer-powered interactions must not allow those interactions to pass as human.
The reader is prohibited from deceiving account users or third parties about the AI nature of interactions or the AI origin of output produced by Writer.
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