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Summary by gemma-4-12b. It may be wrong; the diff below is what actually changed. Raw: 7c1b97fa8d-openai-usage-policies.diff · commit 7c1b97fa8d
diff --git a/snapshots/openai/usage-policies.md b/snapshots/openai/usage-policies.mdindex 69c9ec1..0dadf5f 100644--- a/snapshots/openai/usage-policies.md+++ b/snapshots/openai/usage-policies.md@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ <!-- fineprint snapshot: openai/usage-policies | source: https://openai.com/policies/usage-policies/ --> -Effective: October 29, 2025+Effective: November 20, 2026++Effective: November 20, 2026 | Previous Version We aim for our tools to be used safely and responsibly, while maximizing your control over how you use them. In building our Usage Policies, we keep a few important things in mind.@@ -24,8 +26,8 @@ Your use of OpenAI services must follow these Usage Policies: - destruction, compromise, or breach of another's system or property, including malicious or abusive cyber activity or attempts to infringe on intellectual property rights of others - real money gambling- - provision of tailored advice that requires a license, such as legal or medical advice, without appropriate involvement by a licensed professional+ - building or offering AI tools that provide others with tailored advice that requires a license, without appropriate involvement by a licensed professional. You also may not state or imply that the AI itself holds professional credentials or authorization. - unsolicited safety testing - circumventing our safeguards- - national security or intelligence purposes without our review and approval+ - national security, law enforcement, or intelligence purposes without our review and approval - Respect privacy. People are entitled to privacy. So, we don't allow attempts to compromise the privacy of others, including to aggregate, monitor, profile, or distribute individuals' private or sensitive information without their authorization. And, you may never use our services for: - facial recognition databases without data subject consent@@ -35,18 +37,21 @@ Your use of OpenAI services must follow these Usage Policies: - inference regarding an individual's emotions in the workplace and educational settings, except when necessary for medical or safety reasons - assessment or prediction of the risk of an individual committing a criminal offense based solely on their personal traits or on profiling-- Keep minors safe. Children and teens deserve special protection. Our services are designed to prevent harm and support their well-being, and must never be used to exploit, endanger, or sexualize anyone under 18 years old. We report apparent child sexual abuse material and child endangerment to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. We prohibit use of our services for:+- Keep young people safe. Children and teens deserve special protection. Our services are designed to prevent harm and support their well-being.+ - Child sexual abuse and exploitation: Our services must not be used to cause, enable, facilitate, support, or encourage the sexual abuse, exploitation, or sexualisation of anyone under 18. We report apparent child sexual abuse material and other child sexual abuse conduct to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. We prohibit use of our services for: - child sexual abuse material (CSAM), whether or not any portion is AI generated- - grooming of minors- - exposing minors to age-inappropriate content, such as graphic self-harm, sexual, or violent content- - promoting unhealthy dieting or exercise behavior to minors- - shaming or otherwise stigmatizing the body type or appearance of minors- - dangerous challenges for minors- - underaged sexual or violent roleplay- - underaged access to age-restricted goods or activities+ - grooming, sextortion or any form of conduct based child sexual abuse+ - sexualizing children+ - other usage or behaviour that supports the sexual abuse or exploitation of children+ - Teens' use of our products and services: OpenAI tools must not be used to endanger anyone under 18. We build age-appropriate safeguards designed to reduce exposure to content that may be harmful or developmentally inappropriate. We prohibit use of our services for:+ - exposing minors to age-inappropriate content, such as graphic self-harm, sexual, or violent content+ - promoting unhealthy dieting or exercise behavior to minors+ - shaming or otherwise stigmatizing the body type or appearance of minors+ - promoting or facilitating dangerous challenges or age restricted goods and services to minors+ - underaged sexual or violent roleplay - Empower people. People should be able to make decisions about their lives and their communities. So we don't allow our services to be used to manipulate or deceive people, to interfere with their exercise of human rights, to exploit people's vulnerabilities, or to interfere with their ability to get an education or access critical services, including any use for: - academic dishonesty - deceit, fraud, scams, spam, or impersonation - political campaigning, lobbying, foreign or domestic election interference, or demobilization activities- - automation of high-stakes decisions in sensitive areas without human review+ - automation of high-stakes actions in sensitive areas without human review. This includes actions, decisions, transactions, submissions, and other steps that materially affect a person's rights, safety, access to essential services, or other consequential interests in areas such as: - critical infrastructure - education@@ -59,8 +64,23 @@ Your use of OpenAI services must follow these Usage Policies: - essential government services - product safety components- - national security+ - national security, intelligence, and law enforcement - migration- - law enforcement+- Training and developing models. Capable models must have safeguards proportionate to the risks they pose before they are deployed. Training another model on OpenAI outputs can transfer capabilities without carrying those safeguards over.+ - You must not use OpenAI models or their outputs to generate, prepare, select, or supply training material or signals for models that are intended as alternatives to or substitutes for OpenAI models or services. This includes:+ - Creating or preparing training data, training tasks, rubrics, or reinforcement-learning environments.+ - Providing feedback used in training, including labels, scores, rankings, preferences, rewards, or corrections.+ - Selecting, filtering, or validating training data, tasks, or trajectories.+ - You must not attempt to extract protected reasoning through unauthorized access, reverse engineering, or circumvention of safeguards.+ - These restrictions apply whether you perform the work yourself, for another party, or through someone acting on your behalf, even if you do not train the resulting model. They also apply when outputs from product use or evaluation are later used or supplied for those training purposes.+ - You may use OpenAI models for research, software development, model evaluation and benchmarking, and product development, within these boundaries.+ - These restrictions do not prohibit uses expressly permitted by your applicable Agreement with OpenAI, including any Permitted Exception under the Services Agreement.++OpenAI-approved use. Some otherwise prohibited uses of our services are beneficial to society provided there are appropriate safeguards. To support those uses, OpenAI may grant specific partners case-by-case exceptions to certain restrictions in these Usage Policies. We review factors such as the partner, proposed use, applicable safeguards, and the partner's compliance commitments. These uses may require written terms and apply only to the approved partner, use, and conditions. For example:++- National security, intelligence, and law enforcement. Subject to the requirements described above, and as described in our Principles for National Security Partnerships, we support national security, intelligence, and law enforcement uses of our services that benefit people, strengthen democratic governance, and preserve appropriate human judgment and accountability. But all customers and uses must comply with our requirements on preserving human judgment and accountability over high stakes decisions, including the use of force, in the national security and law enforcement space, and with other prohibitions in our Principles on the use of our tools for mass domestic surveillance and evasion of legal obligations, oversight, or accountability.++Providing access to our models. If you operate a model-access intermediary platform or other service that enables third parties to directly access OpenAI models, you must obtain our prior review and approval. This requirement does not apply solely because an application integrates OpenAI models to power its features or functionality. +- 2026-10-21: We've updated our Usage Policies to clarify restrictions on using OpenAI models and outputs to train other models. We've also clarified protections for children and teens and requirements for high-stakes uses. The update also incorporates our existing national security principles and sets out approval requirements for national security and law enforcement uses, as well as for model-access intermediaries. These changes are effective November 20, 2026. - 2025-10-29: We've updated our Usage Policies to reflect a universal set of policies across OpenAI products and services. - 2025-01-29: We've updated our Universal Policies to clarify prohibitions under applicable laws.