Users are explicitly prohibited from using any OpenAI service for illicit activity, including exploiting, endangering, or sexualizing anyone under 18 years old. We prohibit use of our services for:

These policies extend to developers who are building applications on top of our technology: if developers are building tools targeted at minors, those tools may not allow the creation of sexually explicit or suggestive content. We monitor our services for violations of these policies, and ban users and developers who are found to violate them.

Any user who attempts to generate or upload CSAM or CSEM is reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children⁠(opens in a new window) (NCMEC) and banned from using our services further. We notify developers if we see their users attempting to generate or upload CSAM or CSEM and give them an opportunity to remedy by banning the problematic user from their app; if developers fail to remedy a persistent pattern of problematic behavior on their apps, we ban them. Some individuals who have been banned from using our products for engaging in illegal activities attempt to circumvent these bans by creating new accounts. Our investigations team monitors for this type of evasion and works to prevent bad actors from returning to commit abuse using our products.

We’re committed to responsibly sourcing our training datasets to safeguard them from image-based sexual abuse. We detect and remove CSAM and CSEM from training data, and report any confirmed CSAM to the relevant authorities, including NCMEC. This initial step is designed to prevent the model from developing capabilities of producing CSAM or CSEM in the first instance.