Terms of Service
A standard-form contract between a platform and its users whose legal effect derives from the user's act of accepting the terms, and which has limited binding force on unregistered automated crawlers.
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User agreements of mainstream model vendors generally prohibit bypassing safety mechanisms and generating illegal or harmful content, and violating the terms may lead to account bans and revocation of API access.
Terms of service are essentially a standard-form contract between the platform and the user, and their effect derives from the act of the user accepting the terms.
Automated scrapers are not necessarily registered users and may never have clicked to agree, which makes it difficult for platforms to pursue liability directly on grounds of breach of contract.
Large-scale scrapers are often spread across multiple jurisdictions, and a single platform's terms of service have limited effect in cross-border scenarios.
Some vendors have begun explicitly prohibiting distillation-purpose usage in their terms of service and using detection results as a legal basis for account suspension.
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User agreements of mainstream model vendors generally prohibit bypassing safety mechanisms and generating illegal or harmful content, and violating the terms may lead to account bans and revocation of API access.
50%UnverifiedTerms of service are essentially a standard-form contract between the platform and the user, and their effect derives from the act of the user accepting the terms.
50%UnverifiedAutomated scrapers are not necessarily registered users and may never have clicked to agree, which makes it difficult for platforms to pursue liability directly on grounds of breach of contract.
50%UnverifiedLarge-scale scrapers are often spread across multiple jurisdictions, and a single platform's terms of service have limited effect in cross-border scenarios.
50%UnverifiedSome vendors have begun explicitly prohibiting distillation-purpose usage in their terms of service and using detection results as a legal basis for account suspension.
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