Acceptable Use Policy

BY USING OUR WEBSITE YOU AGREE TO THIS POLICY – PLEASE READ IT CAREFULLY

This Policy applies to your use of AI Studio and all Content on AI Studio and forms part of your agreement with us. This Policy sets out what is and is not permitted on AI Studio. In this Policy, defined terms have the same meanings as in our Terms of Use for all Users.

1. Do not use AI Studio except for your own personal use and do not sell, rent, transfer, or share your account or any Content obtained from your use of AI Studio to or with anyone else.
2. Only use AI Studio in a manner and for a purpose that is lawful.
3. Do not upload, post, display, or publish Content on AI Studio that is illegal, fraudulent, defamatory, hateful, discriminatory, threatening or harassing, or which encourages or promotes violence or any illegal activity.
4. Do not use AI Studio in any way which may exploit, harm, or attempt to exploit or harm any individual under 18 years old, for example by exposing them to inappropriate Content.
5. Do not upload, post, display, or publish Content on AI Studio that:
   1. Shows, includes or refers to:
      1. Any individual under 18 years old (or which refers to individuals under 18 years old generally); or
      2. Any other individual unless you have written documentation which confirms that all individuals shown or included or referred to in your Content are at least 18 years old, and you have a written consent from each individual to use their name or images (or both) in the Content;
   2. Shows, promotes, advertises or refers to:
      1. Firearms, weapons, or any goods whose sale, possession or use is subject to prohibitions or restrictions;
      2. Drugs or drug paraphernalia;
      3. Self-harm or suicide;
      4. Incest;
      5. Bestiality;
      6. Violence, rape, lack of consent, hypnosis, intoxication, sexual assault, torture, sadomasochistic abuse or hardcore bondage, extreme fisting, or genital mutilation;
      7. Necrophilia;
      8. Scatological or excrement-related material;
      9. "Revenge porn" (being any sexually explicit material featuring any individual who has not given prior, express and fully informed consent to that material being taken, captured, or otherwise memorialized, or being posted and shared on AI Studio);
      10. Escort services, sex trafficking, or prostitution;
   3. Contains unsolicited sexual content or unsolicited language that sexually objectifies another User or anyone else in a non-consensual way, or contains fake or manipulated sexual content in relation to another User or anyone else (including "deepfakes");
   4. Contains, promotes, advertises or refers to hate speech (being Content intended to vilify, humiliate, dehumanize, exclude, attack, threaten, or incite hatred, fear of, or violence against, a group or individual based on race, ethnicity, national origin, immigration status, caste, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, serious disease, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic);
   5. Contains or refers to anyone else’s personal data or private or confidential information without that person’s express written consent;
   6. Either: (i) in the case of Content featuring public nudity, was recorded in or is being broadcast from a country, State or province where public nudity is illegal; or (ii) in the case of Content featuring sexual activities, was recorded in or is being broadcast from a public place where members of the public are reasonably likely to see the activities being performed;
   7. Gives the impression that it comes from or is approved, licensed or endorsed by us or any other person or company;
   8. Causes or is calculated to cause inconvenience, or anxiety to anyone else or which is likely to upset, embarrass, or cause serious offence to anyone else;
   9. Is used or is intended to be used to extract money or another benefit from anyone else in exchange for removal of the Content; and/or
   10. Involves or promotes third-party commercial activities or sales without our prior express consent.
6. You must comply with any requirements set out in our Community Guidelines.
7. Do not use AI Studio to stalk, bully, abuse, harass, threaten or intimidate anyone else.
8. Do not use AI Studio to engage in misleading or deceptive conduct.
9. Respect the intellectual property rights of Creators, including by not recording, reproducing, sharing, communicating to the public or otherwise distributing their Content without authorization.
10. Do not do anything that violates our or someone else’s rights, including intellectual property rights, personality rights, unfair competition, privacy, and data protection rights.
11. Do not impersonate us, one of our employees, another User, or any other person or company.
12. Do not provide false account registration information or make unauthorized use of anyone else’s information or Content.
13. Do not post or cause to be posted any Content which is spam, which has the intention or effect of artificially increasing any Creator’s views or interactions, or which is otherwise inauthentic, repetitive, misleading or low quality.
14. Do not transmit, stream, or otherwise send any pre-recorded audio or video material during a live stream or otherwise attempt to pass off recorded material as a live stream.
15. Do not use other media or methods (for example the use of codewords or signals) to communicate anything which violates this Policy.
16. Do not reproduce, print, distribute, attempt to download, modify, create derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, republish, download, store or transmit any Content, except as permitted under the Terms of Service.
17. Do not knowingly introduce any viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material into Content which is or may be malicious or technologically harmful.
18. Do not decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer, or otherwise attempt to discover or derive the source code of AI Studio.
19. Do not use AI Studio in a way that could adversely affect our systems or security or interfere with any other User’s use of AI Studio.
20. Do not use any automated program, tool or process (such as web crawlers, robots, bots, spiders, and automated scripts) to access AI Studio or any server, network or system associated with AI Studio, or to extract, scrape, collect, harvest or gather Content or information from AI Studio.
21. Do not use AI Studio’s name, logo or any related or similar names, logos, product and service names, designs, or slogans other than in the limited ways which are expressly permitted in the Terms of Service or with our prior written agreement.

Breaches of this Policy may lead to your account being suspended or terminated, and access to your earnings being revoked, as set out in the Terms of Service.

Last updated: May 2024