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xAI · xAI Terms of Service · View original document ↗

Prohibition On Service Modification And Reverse Engineering

High severity High confidence Explicit document language Common · 282 of 352 platforms

Key Facts

Does xAI prohibit users from modifying, copying, leasing, selling, reselling, distributing, distilling, manipulating, using bots to access, reverse engineering, or decompiling the Service?
xAI prohibits users from modifying, copying, leasing, selling, reselling, distributing, distilling, manipulating, using bots to access, reverse engineering, or decompiling the Service.
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ConductAtlas Analysis

Why it matters (compliance & governance perspective)

This prohibition prevents users from extracting, reproducing, commercializing, or technically circumventing the Service in a wide range of ways.

Clause Stability Stable

0
Changes
3
Months Monitored
Jul 10, 2026
First Seen
Jul 10, 2026
Last Seen
This clause type exists across 4244 other provisions on other platforms.

Consumer impact (what this means for users)

Users are prohibited from a broad set of technical and commercial actions involving the Service, including reverse engineering, reselling, and automated access via bots.

How other platforms handle this

NVIDIA NIM Medium

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.

Tinder Medium

You may not display any personal contact, banking, or peer-to-peer payment information, whether in relation to you or any other person (for example, names, home addresses or postcodes, telephone numbers, email addresses, URLs, credit/debit card...)

ActiveCampaign Medium

Bypass or ignore instructions contained in our robots.txt file that controls automated access to portions of our Services;

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Modifying, copying, leasing, selling, reselling, distributing, distilling, manipulating, using bots to access, reverse engineering, or decompiling our Service

Excerpt from xAI's Terms of Service

Applicable regulations

CFAA
United States Federal
DMCA
United States Federal
DSA
European Union
Trump Executive Order on AI Policy Framework
US

Provision details

Document information
Document
xAI Terms of Service
Entity
xAI
Document last updated
May 5, 2026
Tracking information
First tracked
May 8, 2026
Last verified
May 12, 2026
Record ID
CA-P-040290
Document ID
CA-D-00327
Evidence Provenance
Source URL
Wayback Machine
Content hash (SHA-256)
fbcda0ec0bb33eba1935039e132a19676af37212d42f1dfa3668d5a855803878
Analysis generated
May 8, 2026 10:51 UTC
Methodology
Evidence
✓ Snapshot stored   ✓ Hash verified
Citation Record
Entity: xAI
Document: xAI Terms of Service
Record ID: CA-P-040290
Captured: 2026-05-08 10:51:01 UTC
SHA-256: fbcda0ec0bb33eba…
URL: https://conductatlas.com/platform/xai/xai-terms-of-service/provision/CA-P-040290/prohibition-on-service-modification-and-reverse-engineering/
Accessed: Aug. 18, 2026
Permanent archival reference. Stable identifier suitable for legal filings, compliance documentation, and research citation.
Classification
Severity
High
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Frequently Asked Questions

What does xAI's Prohibition On Service Modification And Reverse Engineering clause do?

This prohibition prevents users from extracting, reproducing, commercializing, or technically circumventing the Service in a wide range of ways.

How does this clause affect you?

Users are prohibited from a broad set of technical and commercial actions involving the Service, including reverse engineering, reselling, and automated access via bots.

How many platforms have this type of clause?

ConductAtlas has identified this type of provision across 282 platforms. See the full comparison.

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