Acceptable Use Policy — August 11, 2026 (saved en-US page)

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Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Context

The AUP applies to everyone using the Service, is part of your agreement, and controls on acceptable-use conflicts

Anysphere's Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) applies to anyone using the Service, including consumers, developers and businesses, regardless of subscription tier or how the Service is accessed. It forms part of, and is incorporated by reference into, your agreement with Anysphere, Inc. or its Affiliates. Your AUP obligations are in addition to your obligations under your Agreement, and if the AUP conflicts with the Agreement, the AUP controls with respect to acceptable use. The page is labeled “Last updated August 11, 2026.”

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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
Your obligations under this AUP are in addition to your obligations under your Agreement.
In the event of a conflict between this AUP and your Agreement, this AUP controls with respect to acceptable use.
Last updated August 11, 2026

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  • Your “Agreement” is not defined in this source, so which agreement the AUP is incorporated into depends on your relationship with Anysphere.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Permission or license

You may use the Service if you act safely and responsibly, follow the law, do not harm people and respect guardrails

Anysphere says you are free to use the 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 its guardrails. A list of more specific prohibitions follows.

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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:

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  • “Be a good human” is not defined beyond the specific prohibitions that follow.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception

Do not use the Service or Suggestions to promote or engage in illegal, harmful or abusive activities

The first AUP rule says to comply with the law. As an example, you should not use the Service or Suggestions to promote or engage in illegal, harmful or abusive activities, including the specific items listed after it. In the extracted text the list nesting is not preserved, so which items fall under which “including by:” lead-in is read from their order.

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Comply with the law. For example,
use our Service or Suggestions to promote or engage in illegal, harmful, or abusive activities, including:

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  • The nesting of the following items under this rule is not preserved in the extracted text.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception

Do not copy, resell, reverse engineer or distill the Service or its models, except where law prohibits the restriction

Under the heading of detrimentally impacting the Service, you may not modify, copy, translate, lease, sell, resell, distribute, distill or manipulate the Service, use bots to access it, or reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble or otherwise seek to obtain the source code of the Service, including its systems, models or algorithms. This restriction does not apply to the extent applicable law prohibits it.

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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)

Qualifications & exceptions

  • Applies except to the extent this restriction is prohibited by applicable law.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception

Do not strip, alter or circumvent embedded provenance metadata or watermarks

Detrimentally impacting the Service includes stripping, altering or circumventing embedded provenance metadata or watermarks.

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Detrimentally impacting the Service, including by:
Stripping, altering or circumventing embedded provenance metadata or watermarks

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  • Which outputs carry embedded provenance metadata or watermarks is not stated.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception

Do not critically harm or promote harming human life, including pro-terrorist activity, or engage in animal cruelty

Under the lead-in about causing harm or engaging in abusive activity, you may not critically harm, or promote critically harming, human life (yours or anyone else's), including pro-terrorist activities, or engage in animal cruelty. In the extracted text the items after the lead-in are a flat list, so the grouping is read from their order.

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Causing harm or engaging in abusive activity, including by:
Critically harming or promoting critically harming human life (yours or anyone else
including pro-terrorist activities
Engaging in animal cruelty

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  • The source's list nesting is flat; the grouping under the causing-harm lead-in is inferred from order.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception

Do not violate privacy or publicity rights, including nudifying, impersonating or defamatorily depicting real people

You may not use the Service in a way that infringes, misappropriates or violates a person's privacy or 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; or depicting a person in a defamatory manner or portraying them in a false light.

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Using the Service in a way that infringes, misappropriates or violates a person
Undressing or nudifying real persons, or otherwise altering a real person
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

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  • Whether consent from the depicted person changes any of these items is not stated.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception

Do not sexualize or exploit children

Under the lead-in about causing harm or engaging in abusive activity, you may not sexualize or exploit children.

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Sexualizing or exploiting children

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception

Do not engage in espionage, hacking, fraud, scamming, stalking, doxing, phishing or forgery or misrepresentation

Under the lead-in about causing harm or engaging in abusive activity, you may not engage in espionage, hacking, defrauding, defaming, scamming or spamming; stalking, doxing or phishing; or falsifying, forging, fabricating or materially misrepresenting documents, records, identities, credentials, signatures, endorsements, evidence or other information.

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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

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception

Do not provide services that encourage others to violate the AUP, such as websites selling violative Suggestions

You may not provide services that encourage others to violate the AUP, including by operating websites that offer violative Suggestions from the Service in exchange for payment.

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Providing services that encourage others to violate this AUP, including by operating websites offering violative Suggestions from our Service in exchange for payment

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception

Do not take unauthorized actions for others, generate illegal content, or violate export laws

Under the lead-in about not complying with laws or regulations, you may not take unauthorized actions on behalf of others; attempt to generate, access, distribute or make available content that is illegal or prohibited under the applicable law in the relevant jurisdiction; or violate any laws relating to exporting data or software to and from the United States or other countries. In the extracted text these items follow the lead-in as a flat list, so the grouping is read from their order.

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Not complying with laws or regulations, including by:
Taking unauthorized actions on behalf of others
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

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  • The source's list nesting is flat; the grouping under the not-complying-with-laws lead-in is inferred from order.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception

Do not operate in a regulated industry without complying, such as unlawful securities trading or advice

Under the lead-in about not complying with laws or regulations, you may not operate in a regulated industry without complying with its rules, 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. Anysphere says it is not a broker-dealer or a registered investment adviser under the securities laws of the United States or any other jurisdiction.

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Not complying with laws or regulations, including by:
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

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  • Which regulated industries beyond the securities example are meant is not specified.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception

Do not use the Service in a region where Anysphere does not offer it

Under the lead-in about not complying with laws or regulations, you may not operate in a region where Anysphere does not offer the Service.

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Not complying with laws or regulations, including by:
Operating in a region where we do not offer the Service

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  • Which regions Anysphere does not offer the Service in is not stated in this policy.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception

Do not generate, access or distribute content that is illegal or prohibited under the law of the relevant jurisdiction

Among the prohibited uses, you may not attempt to generate, access, distribute or make available content that is illegal or prohibited under the applicable law in the relevant jurisdiction. Whether content is covered therefore depends on the law of the relevant jurisdiction, which the policy does not identify. The same item also appears with the law-compliance lead-in in the earlier card.

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Attempting to generate, access, distribute or make available content that is illegal or prohibited under the applicable law in the relevant jurisdiction

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  • Which jurisdiction's law applies when a user and the content are in different places is not stated.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception

Do not violate laws on exporting data or software to and from the United States or other countries

Among the prohibited uses, you may not violate any laws relating to exporting data or software to and from the United States or other countries. The policy does not name the laws. The same item also appears with the law-compliance lead-in in the earlier card.

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Violating any laws relating to exporting data or software to and from the United States or other countries

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  • The specific export laws and any list of restricted countries or parties are not named in this policy.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception

Do not use the Service for high-stakes automated decisions about a person's safety, rights or well-being

Among the prohibited uses listed under the comply-with-the-law rule, you may not make high-stakes automated decisions that affect a person's safety, legal or material rights, or well-being, such as financial credit, educational, employment, housing, insurance, legal, medical or other important decisions about or for them.

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Making high-stakes automated decisions that affect a person
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)

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  • Whether a decision with human review still counts as “automated” is not stated.
  • The source's list nesting is flat, so this item is read as one of the prohibited uses under the comply-with-the-law rule.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception

Do not mislead others about your use of AI, including phishing, fake accounts or falsely attributing services

Among the prohibited uses, you may not mislead others or fail to be transparent about 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.

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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

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  • When disclosure of AI use is required, and in what form, is not specified.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception

Do not use the Service to harm people or property, including developing bioweapons or weapons of mass destruction

A separate rule says not to harm people or property. It includes using the Service or Suggestions to critically harm, or promote 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; or destroy property. Some of these repeat items listed earlier under other lead-ins; the earlier harm-to-life item also names pro-terrorist activities.

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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
Take unauthorized actions on behalf of others
Develop bioweapons, chemical weapons, or weapons of mass destruction
Destroy property
including pro-terrorist activities

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  • The text says “includes things like”, so the list is not stated to be exhaustive.