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Users cannot pool claims with others, which limits the practical ability to pursue small or diffuse harms that are typically only viable as class actions.
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 required to bring any dispute solely on an individual basis and cannot participate as a plaintiff or class member in any class, consolidated, or representative proceeding.
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If, after exhaustion of all appeals, any of these prohibitions...are found to be unenforceable with respect to a particular claim or request for relief...then such a claim or request for relief will be decided by a court of competent jurisdiction...
"all disputes must be brought on an individual basis only, and may not be brought as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class, consolidated, or representative proceeding.Excerpt from Writer's Terms of Service
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Users cannot pool claims with others, which limits the practical ability to pursue small or diffuse harms that are typically only viable as class actions.
The reader is required to bring any dispute solely on an individual basis and cannot participate as a plaintiff or class member in any class, consolidated, or representative proceeding.
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