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Prohibition On Service Modification And Reverse Engineering

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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.

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.

Upwork Medium

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.

Glassdoor Medium

Send messages in violation of the USA CAN-SPAM Act or any other applicable anti-spam law.

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▸ View Original Clause Language DOCUMENT RECORD
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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 xAI 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: July 13, 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 285 platforms. See the full comparison.

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