Usage Policies

Updated: July 07, 2024

At Jersey AI Labs LLC (“Ask Emmy”, “Emmy”, “we”, “us”, or “our”), we aim for our tools to be used safely and responsibly, while maximizing your control over how you use them. By using our services, you agree to adhere to our policies.

We have established universal policies applicable to all our services, as well as specific policies for builders who use Ask Emmy or our API to create applications for themselves or others. Violating our policies could result in action against your account, up to suspension or termination. We also work to make our models safer and more useful, by training them to refuse harmful instructions and reduce their tendency to produce harmful content.

We believe that learning from real-world use is a critical component of creating and releasing increasingly safe AI systems. We cannot predict all beneficial or abusive uses of our technology, so we proactively monitor for new abuse trends. Our policies will evolve based on what we learn over time.

Universal Policies

To maximize innovation and creativity, we believe you should have the flexibility to use our services as you see fit, so long as you comply with the law and don’t harm yourself or others. When using any Ask Emmy service, like AI chat, AI write, app.askemmy.ai and the Ask Emmy API, these rules apply:

  • Comply with applicable laws – for example, don’t compromise the privacy of others, engage in regulated activity without complying with applicable regulations, or promote or engage in any illegal activity, including the exploitation or harm of children and the development or distribution of illegal substances, goods, or services.
  • Don’t use our service to harm yourself or others – for example, don’t use our services to promote suicide or self-harm, develop or use weapons, injure others or destroy property, or engage in unauthorized activities that violate the security of any service or system.
  • Don’t repurpose or distribute output from our services to harm others – for example, don’t share output from our services to defraud, scam, spam, mislead, bully, harass, defame, discriminate based on protected attributes, sexualize children, or promote violence, hatred or the suffering of others.
  • Respect our safeguards – don’t circumvent safeguards or safety mitigations in our services unless supported by Ask Emmy or related to research conducted in accordance with our Sharing & Publication Policy.
  • Our Prohibited Use Policy – applies to your use of all of our Services.

We report apparent child sexual abuse material (CSAM) to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

These policies may be enforced automatically or applied retroactively upon further review.

API Use Policy

The Ask Emmy API allows you to build entirely custom applications. As the developer of your application, you are responsible for designing and implementing how your users interact with our technology.

We recognize that our API introduces new capabilities with scalable impact, so we have service-specific policies that apply to all use of our APIs in addition to our Universal Policies:

1. Don’t compromise the privacy of others, including:

  • Collecting, processing, disclosing, inferring or generating personal data without complying with applicable legal requirements
  • Using biometric systems for identification or assessment, including facial recognition
  • Facilitating spyware, communications surveillance, or unauthorized monitoring of individuals

2. Don’t perform or facilitate the following activities that may significantly impair the safety, wellbeing, or rights of others, including:

  • Providing tailored legal, medical/health, or financial advice without review by a qualified professional and disclosure of the use of AI assistance and its potential limitations
  • Making high-stakes automated decisions in domains that affect an individual’s safety, rights or well-being (e.g., law enforcement, migration, management of critical infrastructure, safety components of products, essential services, credit, employment, housing, education, social scoring, or insurance)
  • Facilitating real money gambling or payday lending
  • Engaging in political campaigning or lobbying, including generating campaign materials personalized to or targeted at specific demographics
  • Deterring people from participation in democratic processes, including misrepresenting voting processes or qualifications and discouraging voting

3. Don’t misuse our platform to cause harm by intentionally deceiving or misleading others, including:

  • Generating or promoting disinformation, misinformation, or false online engagement (e.g., comments, reviews)
  • Impersonating another individual or organization without consent or legal right
  • Engaging in or promoting academic dishonesty
  • Failing to ensure that automated systems (e.g., chatbots) disclose to people that they are interacting with AI, unless it’s obvious from the context

4. Don’t build tools that may be inappropriate for minors, including:

  • Sexually explicit or suggestive content. This does not include content created for scientific or educational purposes.

We use a combination of automated systems, human review, and user reports to find and assess Custom GPTs that potentially violate our policies. Violations can lead to actions against the content or your account, such as warnings, sharing restrictions, or ineligibility to use Ask Emmy services.