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Attachment A Use Restrictions
You agree not to use the Model or Derivatives of the Model:
In any way that violates any applicable national, federal, state, local or
international law or regulation; For the purpose of exploiting, harming or attempting to
exploit or harm minors in any way; To generate or disseminate verifiably false
information and/or content with the purpose of harming others; To generate or
disseminate personal identifiable information that can be used to harm an individual; To
defame, disparage or otherwise harass others; For fully automated decision making that
adversely impacts an individual’s legal rights or otherwise creates or modifies a
binding, enforceable obligation; For any use intended to or which has the effect of
discriminating against or harming individuals or groups based on online or offline
social behavior or known or predicted personal or personality characteristics; To
exploit any of the vulnerabilities of a specific group of persons based on their age,
social, physical or mental characteristics, in order to materially distort the behavior
of a person pertaining to that group in a manner that causes or is likely to cause that
person or another person physical or psychological harm; For any use intended to or
which has the effect of discriminating against individuals or groups based on legally
protected characteristics or categories; To provide medical advice and medical results
interpretation; To generate or disseminate information for the purpose to be used for
administration of justice, law enforcement, immigration or asylum processes, such as
predicting an individual will commit fraud/crime commitment (e.g. by text profiling,
drawing causal relationships between assertions made in documents, indiscriminate and
arbitrarily-targeted use).
