Anysphere and its Affiliates’ Acceptable Use Policy ("AUP") applies to anyone using our Service, including consumers, developers and businesses, regardless of subscription tier or how the Service is accessed. This AUP forms part of, and is incorporated by reference into, your agreement with Anysphere, Inc. or its Affiliates ("Anysphere," "we," or "us"). If you allow others to use the Service under your account, you are responsible for ensuring they know and follow this AUP. By using our Service, you agree to comply with our policies. Your obligations under this AUP are in addition to your obligations under your Agreement. Capitalized terms used but not defined in this AUP have the meanings given to them in your Agreement. Violating our policies could result in action against your account, up to suspension or termination. In the event of a conflict between this AUP and your Agreement, this AUP controls with respect to acceptable use. We aim to maximize your control over how you use our Service while also ensuring that you do so in a way that is compliant with the law, responsible and safe for humanity. Our policies will evolve over time as our Service and user base change, as well as based on what we learn over time.

The Service and Upstream AI Models

The Service may route your data to AI models provided by us and by third-party model providers ("Model Providers"). When you access a third-party AI model through the Service, the applicable Model Provider's acceptable use policy also applies. You are responsible for ensuring your use of the Service complies with this AUP and the applicable third-party Model Provider's acceptable use policy.

You are free to use our Service so long as you use it to be a good human, act safely and responsibly, comply with the law, not harm people, and respect our guardrails:

• Comply with the law. For example, don't use our Service or Suggestions to promote or engage in illegal, harmful, or abusive activities, including:
  • Detrimentally impacting the Service, including by:
    • Modifying, copying, translating, leasing, selling, reselling, distributing, distilling, manipulating, using bots to access, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble or otherwise seek to obtain the source code of our Service, including our systems, models, or algorithms (except to the extent this restriction is prohibited by applicable law)
    • Jailbreaking, adversarial prompting, or prompt injection
    • Introducing viruses or malware, spamming or DDoSing the Service, or bypassing our systems or protective measures
    • Stripping, altering or circumventing embedded provenance metadata or watermarks
    • Using the Service or any Suggestion to develop machine learning models or related AI services that compete with Anysphere or the Model Providers
    • Scraping, harvesting or reselling any Input or Suggestion, or distilling model data or Suggestion
    • Disrupting, interfering with, or unauthorized access to the Service or its safety systems, including circumventing any rate limits or restrictions or protective measures and safety mitigations
    • Manipulating, circumventing, or interfering with Anysphere's subscription, billing, or usage-metering systems, including through direct or automated means
    • Exploiting account provisioning, team management, or user assignment workflows to avoid or reduce fees, obtain unauthorized credits or refunds, or otherwise receive Service without paying applicable charges

 

• Causing harm or engaging in abusive activity, including by:
  • Critically harming or promoting critically harming human life (yours or anyone else's), including pro-terrorist activities
  • Engaging in animal cruelty
  • Violating copyright, trademark, or other intellectual property law
  • Using the Service in a way that infringes, misappropriates or violates a person’s privacy or their right to publicity, including by:
    • Undressing or nudifying real persons, or otherwise altering a real person’s image or likeness to depict them in an intimate or sexual context
    • Deceptively impersonating a real person
    • Depicting likenesses of persons in a pornographic manner
    • Depicting a person in a defamatory manner or portraying them in a false light
  • Sexualizing or exploiting children
  • Engaging in espionage, hacking, defrauding, defaming, scamming, or spamming
  • Engaging in stalking, doxing, or phishing
  • Engaging in falsifying, forging, fabricating, or materially misrepresenting documents, records, identities, credentials, signatures, endorsements, evidence, or other information
  • Providing services that encourage others to violate this AUP, including by operating websites offering violative Suggestions from our Service in exchange for payment

 

• Not complying with laws or regulations, including by:
  • Taking unauthorized actions on behalf of others
  • Operating in a regulated industry without complying with those regulations, for example, by using the Services to unlawfully buy or sell securities or to provide or receive advice about securities, commodities, derivatives, or other financial products or services, as Anysphere is not a broker-dealer or a registered investment adviser under the securities laws of the United States or any other jurisdiction
  • Operating in a region where we do not offer the Service
  • Attempting to generate, access, distribute or make available content that is illegal or prohibited under the applicable law in the relevant jurisdiction
  • Violating any laws relating to exporting data or software to and from the United States or other countries
  • Making high-stakes automated decisions that affect a person's safety, legal or material rights, or well-being (such as making financial credit, educational, employment, housing, insurance, legal, medical, or other important decisions about or for them)
  • Misleading others or not being transparent regarding your use of AI, including by phishing, creating fake accounts, providing services that appear to be from you, when they are in fact from Anysphere, or providing services that appear to originate from Anysphere, when they do not
  • Accessing the Service through automated or non-human means, whether through a bot, script, or otherwise

 

• Do not harm people or property. This prohibition includes things like using our Service or Suggestions to:
  • Critically harm or promoting critically harming human life (yours or anyone else’s)
  • Take unauthorized actions on behalf of others
  • Develop bioweapons, chemical weapons, or weapons of mass destruction
  • Destroy property

 

• Respect guardrails and don't mislead. Don't circumvent safeguards unless you have our official written consent.

We report suspected child sexual abuse material to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.