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Users are contractually barred from leveraging xAI's Service or its outputs to build competing AI models or services.
Interpretive note: The excerpt lists several independent prohibitions; the canonical claim states only the primary one (competing model development). Scraping/reselling Inputs or Outputs and distilling model data are recorded in omitted_material.
Users cannot use the Service or Output for the purpose of creating products or services that compete with xAI.
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"Using the Service or any Output to develop models or services that compete with xAI, scraping or reselling any Input or Output, or distilling model dataExcerpt from xAI's Terms of Service
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Users are contractually barred from leveraging xAI's Service or its outputs to build competing AI models or services.
Users cannot use the Service or Output for the purpose of creating products or services that compete with xAI.
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