Acceptable Use Policy

Universal Usage Standards

These standards apply to all Users and all use cases of the platform, regardless of role. Violation of any standard below may result in immediate suspension or termination of your account, removal of listings, withholding of payouts, and where appropriate, referral to law enforcement.

Do Not Violate Applicable Law or Engage in Illegal Activity

You will not use the platform, any Agent, any EightX Item, or any Output to: acquire or exchange illegal or controlled substances; engage in or facilitate human trafficking, prostitution, or modern slavery; infringe, misappropriate, or violate the intellectual property rights of any third party; or violate any other applicable law or regulation in any jurisdiction in which you operate.

Do Not Compromise Critical Infrastructure

You will not use the platform to: facilitate the destruction or disruption of critical infrastructure, including power grids, water treatment facilities, medical devices, telecommunications networks, transportation control systems, or air traffic control systems; obtain unauthorised access to critical systems including voting machines, healthcare databases, or financial markets infrastructure; or interfere with the operation of military bases or related infrastructure.

Do Not Compromise Computer or Network Systems

You will not use the platform to: discover or exploit vulnerabilities in systems, networks, or applications without authorisation of the system owner; gain unauthorised access through technical attacks or social engineering; create or distribute malware, ransomware, spyware, or other malicious code; develop tools for denial-of-service attacks or for managing botnets; create tools designed to intercept communications or monitor devices without authorisation; develop persistent access tools designed to operate below normal security levels (including firmware modifications or hardware implants); or bypass security controls including authenticated systems, endpoint protection, or monitoring tools.

Do Not Develop or Design Weapons

You will not use the platform to: produce, modify, design, or illegally acquire weapons, explosives, dangerous materials, or other systems designed to cause harm to or loss of human life; design weaponisation or delivery processes for the deployment of weapons; circumvent regulatory controls to acquire weapons or their precursors; or synthesise or otherwise develop high-yield explosives or biological, chemical, radiological, or nuclear weapons or their precursors, including modifications to evade detection or medical countermeasures.

Do Not Incite Violence or Hateful Behaviour

You will not use the platform to: incite, facilitate, or promote violent extremism, terrorism, or hateful behaviour; provide material support for organisations or individuals associated with violent extremism, terrorism, or hateful behaviour; facilitate or promote any act of violence or intimidation targeting individuals, groups, animals, or property; or promote discriminatory practices on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or any other identifying trait.

Do Not Compromise Privacy or Identity Rights

You will not use the platform to: violate privacy rights as defined by applicable law, including by sharing personal information without consent or accessing private data unlawfully; misuse, collect, solicit, or gain access without permission to private information including non-public contact details, health data, biometric data, neural data (including facial recognition), or confidential or proprietary data; or impersonate a human by presenting AI-generated content as human-generated, or by using AI in a manner intended to convince a natural person that they are communicating with a natural person when they are not.

Do Not Compromise Children's Safety

You will not use the platform to: create, distribute, or promote child sexual abuse material (CSAM), including AI-generated CSAM; facilitate the trafficking, sextortion, or exploitation of a minor; facilitate minor grooming, including by generating content designed to impersonate a minor; facilitate child abuse of any form, including instructions for how to conceal abuse; promote or facilitate pedophilic relationships, including via roleplay; or fetishise or sexualise minors, including in fictional settings or via roleplay. Where EightX detects CSAM (including AI-generated CSAM), or coercion or enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activities, EightX will report to relevant authorities. "Minor" means any individual under 18 years of age, regardless of jurisdiction.

Do Not Create Psychologically or Emotionally Harmful Content

You will not use the platform to: facilitate, promote, or glamorise suicide, self-harm, disordered eating, or unhealthy or compulsive exercise; engage in behaviours that promote unhealthy or unattainable body image or beauty standards; shame, humiliate, intimidate, bully, harass, or celebrate the suffering of individuals; coordinate the harassment or intimidation of any individual or group; generate content depicting animal cruelty or abuse; promote, trivialise, or depict graphic violence, gratuitous gore, or sexual violence; or develop a product or service that employs deceptive techniques with the intent of causing emotional harm.

Do Not Create or Spread Misinformation

You will not use the platform to: create or disseminate deceptive or misleading information about a group, entity, or person; create or disseminate deceptive or misleading information about laws, regulations, procedures, practices, or standards established by an institution, entity, or governing body; create or disseminate conspiratorial narratives meant to target a group, individual, or entity; impersonate real entities or create fake personas to falsely attribute content; or provide false or misleading information related to medical, health, or scientific issues.

Do Not Undermine Democratic Processes or Engage in Targeted Campaign Activities

You will not use the platform to: engage in personalised vote or campaign targeting based on individual profiles or data; create artificial or deceptive political movements; generate automated communications to public officials or voters at scale that conceal their artificial origin; create political content designed to deceive or mislead voters (including synthetic media of political figures); generate or disseminate false information in political and electoral contexts; engage in political lobbying or grassroots advocacy using fabricated information; incite, glorify, or facilitate the disruption of electoral or civic processes; or create content designed to suppress voter turnout through deception or intimidation.

Do Not Use for Criminal Justice, Surveillance, or Unlawful Law-Enforcement Purposes

You will not use the platform to: make determinations on criminal justice applications including parole or sentencing eligibility; target or track a person's physical location, emotional state, or communication without their consent (including via facial recognition, battlefield management applications, or predictive policing); assign social trustworthiness or behaviour scores to individuals without notification or consent; build emotion-recognition systems used to infer emotions of natural persons (except for medical or safety reasons); analyse or identify specific content to censor on behalf of a government organisation; build any biometric categorisation system used to infer race, political opinions, trade union membership, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, or sexual orientation; or build any law-enforcement application that violates the liberty, civil liberties, or human rights of natural persons.

Do Not Engage in Fraudulent, Abusive, or Predatory Practices

You will not use the platform to: facilitate the production, acquisition, or distribution of counterfeit or illicitly acquired goods; promote or facilitate spam, fraudulent schemes, scams, phishing, or malware; create falsified documents (including fake IDs, licences, currency, or other government documents); develop or distribute fraudulent or deceptive products; generate deceptive media including fake reviews, comments, or content; engage in or facilitate multi-level marketing, pyramid schemes, or other deceptive business models; promote or facilitate payday loans, title loans, or other high-interest exploitative lending; engage in deceptive or abusive practices that exploit vulnerable individuals; promote or facilitate abusive debt collection; or deploy subliminal, manipulative, or deceptive techniques to distort decision-making.

Do Not Abuse the Platform

You will not: coordinate malicious activity across multiple accounts; use automation in account creation; circumvent a ban through a different account; access the platform from a jurisdiction prohibited by the Supported Regions Policy; intentionally bypass platform capabilities, restrictions, or guardrails (including by jailbreaking, prompt injection, or model scraping); or use platform inputs and outputs to train an AI model (including model distillation) without prior written authorisation from EightX.

Do Not Generate Non-Consensual Sexually Explicit Content

You will not use the platform to depict or request sexual intercourse or sex acts involving real, identifiable persons without their consent; generate non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII); facilitate, promote, or depict incest, bestiality, or other content prohibited by applicable law; or engage in erotic chat involving minors or non-consenting parties.

High-Risk Use Cases — Additional Safeguards Required

Where you intend to use the platform, any Agent, or any EightX Item in a context that influences a domain vital to public welfare or social equity, you must implement the following additional safeguards. The High-Risk Use Cases include legal, healthcare, insurance, finance, employment, housing, academic admissions, government benefits, and externally published media content. The full list and detailed requirements are set out in Section 11 of the Master Platform Agreement.

Required: Human in the Loop

When the platform is used to provide advice, recommendations, or subjective decision-making affecting individuals or consumers, a qualified professional in the relevant field must review the content or decision before dissemination, finalisation, or reliance. You and your organisation are responsible for the accuracy and appropriateness of the resulting advice.

Required: Disclosure of AI Involvement

Where Output is presented to individuals or consumers, you must disclose that AI is used to help produce the advice, decision, or recommendation. Disclosure must be at minimum at the beginning of each session, and must be reasonably prominent and unambiguous.

Required: Consumer-Facing Chatbots

All consumer-facing chatbots, agentic interfaces, or interactive AI agents must clearly disclose at the beginning of each session that the user is interacting with AI rather than a human.

Required: Products Serving Minors

Where you make any platform feature available to a population that includes minors, you must comply with all additional safeguards required by applicable law (including verifiable parental consent, content controls, and age-gating).

DMCA Takedown Procedure

EightX has registered a designated DMCA agent (Registration #DMCA-1071342) with the US Copyright Office. To submit a DMCA takedown notice, send the following to dmca@agnt8x.ai: (a) identification of the copyrighted work claimed to be infringed; (b) identification of the material claimed to be infringing and its location; (c) your contact information; (d) a statement of good faith belief that the use is not authorised; (e) a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information is accurate and you are authorised to act on behalf of the rights holder; (f) your physical or electronic signature.

Counter-notice procedure: if your content is removed in response to a takedown notice and you believe the removal was incorrect, you may submit a counter-notice to dmca@agnt8x.ai.

Repeat infringer policy: accounts with two or more valid DMCA takedown notices upheld will be permanently suspended.

Enforcement

• EightX may remove listings, suspend accounts, withhold payouts, or terminate accounts for AUP violations without prior notice where immediate action is required to protect platform integrity, user safety, or third parties;
• Where AUP violations are not immediate threats, EightX will provide notice and a reasonable opportunity to remedy before taking action;
• Criminal violations will be referred to relevant law enforcement;
• Users may appeal enforcement decisions within 14 days via legal@agnt8x.ai;
• Repeated AUP violations result in permanent account termination with no right of appeal.