licenses/Gemma-Prohibited-Use-Policy.txt

Gemma Prohibited Use Policy
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Google reserves the right to update this Gemma Prohibited Use Policy from
time to time. Last modified: February 21, 2024.

Source: https://ai.google.dev/gemma/prohibited_use_policy

This policy applies to "Gemma" (the set of machine learning language models,
trained model weights and parameters Google publishes under the Gemma
program) and to "Model Derivatives" of it. The policy text itself is
undated-per-release and generic — it does not name a specific Gemma version
or scope itself to a particular license. SceneWorks conservatively applies
it to the bundled Gemma-4-12B text encoder as well: it continues to sit
alongside Gemma 4 in Google's own documentation even though Gemma 4 is
licensed under the Apache License 2.0 rather than Google's earlier, more
restrictive Gemma Terms of Use (see Apache-2.0.txt in this directory, and
the accompanying NOTICE.txt for why that distinction matters for LTX-2.5).

You may not use nor allow others to use Gemma or Model Derivatives to:

  1. Generate any content, including the outputs or results generated by
     Gemma or Model Derivatives, that infringes, misappropriates, or
     otherwise violates any individual's or entity's rights (including, but
     not limited to rights in copyrighted content).

  2. Perform or facilitate dangerous, illegal, or malicious activities,
     including:
       - Facilitation or promotion of illegal activities or violations of
         law, such as: promoting or generating content related to child
         sexual abuse or exploitation; promoting or facilitating sale of, or
         providing instructions for synthesizing or accessing, illegal
         substances, goods, or services; facilitating or encouraging users
         to commit any type of crimes; or promoting or generating violent
         extremism or terrorist content.
       - Engagement in the illegal or unlicensed practice of any vocation or
         profession including, but not limited to, legal, medical,
         accounting, or financial professional practices.
       - Abuse, harm, interference, or disruption of services (or enable
         others to do the same), such as: promoting or facilitating the
         generation or distribution of spam; or generating content for
         deceptive or fraudulent activities, scams, phishing, or malware.
       - Attempts to override or circumvent safety filters or intentionally
         drive Gemma or Model Derivatives to act in a manner that
         contravenes this Gemma Prohibited Use Policy.
       - Generation of content that may harm or promote the harm of
         individuals or a group, such as: generating content that promotes
         or encourages hatred; facilitating methods of harassment or
         bullying to intimidate, abuse, or insult others; generating content
         that facilitates, promotes, or incites violence; generating content
         that facilitates, promotes, or encourages self harm; generating
         personally identifying information for distribution or other
         harms; tracking or monitoring people without their consent;
         generating content that may have unfair or adverse impacts on
         people, particularly impacts related to sensitive or protected
         characteristics; or generating, gathering, processing, or inferring
         sensitive personal or private information about individuals
         without obtaining all rights, authorizations, and consents
         required by applicable laws.

  3. Generate and distribute content intended to misinform, misrepresent or
     mislead, including: misrepresentation of the provenance of generated
     content by claiming content was created by a human, or represent
     generated content as original works, in order to deceive; generation of
     content that impersonates an individual (living or dead) without
     explicit disclosure, in order to deceive; misleading claims of
     expertise or capability made particularly in sensitive areas (e.g.
     health, finance, government services, or legal); making automated
     decisions in domains that affect material or individual rights or
     well-being (e.g., finance, legal, employment, healthcare, housing,
     insurance, and social welfare); generation of defamatory content,
     including defamatory statements, images, or audio content; or engaging
     in the unauthorized or unlicensed practice of any profession including,
     but not limited to, financial, legal, medical/health, or related
     professional practices.

  4. Generate sexually explicit content, including content created for the
     purposes of pornography or sexual gratification (e.g. sexual chatbots).
     Note that this does not include content created for scientific,
     educational, documentary, or artistic purposes.

The authoritative and current version of this policy is the document at the
URL above; this file reproduces it for offline/in-app reference and does not
replace it.