Sharing & Publication Policy

OpenAI · agreement dated November 14, 2022 · Official agreement

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Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Context

This is the Sharing & publication policy, updated November 14, 2022

The saved page is OpenAI's Sharing & publication policy, marked "Updated: November 14, 2022". It sets rules for sharing AI-generated prompts and outputs online, publishing writing created partly with the OpenAI API, and publishing research about the API. This analysis covers the text as saved; it does not say whether OpenAI has since revised or retired this policy.

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Updated: November 14, 2022
Sharing & publication policy

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  • Only the text in the saved copy of this page is analyzed; linked policies are not part of it.

Not stated here

  • Whether a later version replaced this one after the saved copy was captured is not known from this source.
  • The policy is written for the OpenAI API era (it names the Playground, the raw model and GPT-3); it does not name ChatGPT or say which current products it covers.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception

A human must take ultimate responsibility for content published with API help

For published content created partly with the API, the policy states that it is a human who must take ultimate responsibility for the content being published. You cannot shift that responsibility to the AI.

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it is a human who must take ultimate responsibility for the content being published

Qualifications & exceptions

  • Stated for publishing co-authored written content.

Not stated here

  • The policy does not define what "ultimate responsibility" involves legally or practically.

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