Introduction
In today’s rapidly evolving AI landscape, organizations face a pressing business challenge: ensuring that their AI products not only operate legally, but also comply with the myriad acceptable use policies imposed by underlying service providers. Each leading AI platform open-source libraries, commercial APIs, and cloud-based ML services maintains its own set of “acceptable use” restrictions. At the same time, federal and state laws, industry guidelines, and ethical frameworks continue to expand, making it difficult for enterprises to keep pace.
Staying compliant demands continuous monitoring of (a) new legislation such as privacy or deepfake statutes and (b) provider updates to prohibit specific content categories (e.g., hate speech, illicit behavior, biased decision-making). Manually aggregating all these requirements into a single, actionable policy suite risks oversight: one misalignment could leave an AI deployment vulnerable to regulatory enforcement or contract violations with a cloud provider.
Pacific AI addresses this complexity head-on by offering an “AI Acceptable Use Policy” that consolidates every major requirement from OpenAI and Anthropic to AWS, Microsoft, Google, Meta, and Cohere into six clear categories. Instead of cross-referencing seven separate vendor documents and dozens of statutes, organizations can adopt Pacific AI’s unified policy to guarantee full coverage. The rest of this post demonstrates how Pacific AI’s policy maps directly to each external provider’s “prohibited uses,” ensuring seamless compliance with all referenced vendor policies.
1. Pacific AI’s Internal “AI Acceptable Use Policy”
For reference, Pacific AI’s policy is organized into six broad “Unacceptable Use” categories. Below is a concise restatement of each category (with exact headings preserved):
1. Human Rights, Civil Liberties, and Safety
- Autonomous weapons, predictive policing, social scoring, invasive surveillance, stalking systems.
- Any form of forced labor or racist/homophobic targeting.
- Use in scenarios where individuals cannot reasonably consent (e.g., covert biometric surveillance, facial recognition in public spaces).
2. Misinformation, Influence, and Deception
- Electoral manipulation or targeted political persuasion.
- Deepfake generation for deceptive political or social-influencing purposes.
- Coordinated disinformation campaigns aimed at destabilizing civic discourse.
3. Data Privacy, Consent, and Security
- Unconsented biometric categorization.
- Illicit data scraping or harvesting of personal data.
- Any use that violates GDPR/CCPA or other established privacy laws (e.g., unauthorized profiling, re-identification).
4. Discrimination and Unfair Outcomes
- Decisions that deny services (e.g., loans, insurance, housing, healthcare) based on protected characteristics (race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, etc.).
- Credit scoring, risk assessments, or job-screening algorithms that systematically disadvantage historically marginalized groups.
- Any automated refusal of critical medical treatment or social support using biased or non-transparent algorithms.
5. Intellectual Property and Ethical Content Generation
- Any form of automated content generation that infringes copyright (e.g., unauthorized text excerpts, code copying, or scraped data).
- Plagiarism, defamation, or any content that promotes hate speech, harassing or violent language.
- Generation of illicit or offensive imagery (e.g., child sexual abuse material, extreme pornographic content).
6. Safety and Misuse Prevention
- Tools intended to design, build, or facilitate illicit weapons (chemical, biological, or conventional).
- Aid in manufacturing explosives, harmful viruses, or instructions for violent wrongdoing.
- Any AI-driven mechanism to create or support CSAM (child sexual abuse material) or other illegal content.
7. Enforcement & Review
- Violations of any category trigger immediate review by Pacific AI’s Risk & Compliance Team.
- Quarterly reviews update this policy to ensure alignment with new provider policies and relevant laws.
- All developer and end-user agreements explicitly reference these six categories and incorporate vendor-specific restrictions by reference.
2. List of External “Acceptable Use” Policies Referenced by Pacific AI
Prohibits:
- Hate, harassment, and violent extremist content.
- Illicit or fraudulent behavior (e.g., advice to commit crimes).
- Disallowed political campaigning or targeted persuasion.
- Malicious code generation.
- Medical or legal advice without proper disclaimers.
Prohibits:
- Extraction of personal data or unauthorized profiling.
- Weaponization (e.g., instructions for building weapons).
- Extreme political persuasion (including microtargeting or “dark pattern” design).
- Illicit behavior facilitation (e.g., drug synthesis, hacking).
- Spreading hateful or violent content.
Microsoft Enterprise AI Services Code of Conduct
Prohibits:
- Any activity that breaches local, state, federal, or international law.
- Infringement of intellectual property rights.
- Use in harmful social scoring or biometric identification without consent.
- Deployment in warfare, police surveillance, or high-risk applications without explicit human-in-the-loop.
- Violations of Microsoft’s Responsible AI Standard (fairness, privacy, reliability).
Prohibits:
- Deepfake creation that can mislead or defraud.
- Genetic or biological weapons design.
- Illegal surveillance (e.g., recording or analyzing individuals without consent).
- Malware creation or hacking tools.
- CSAM (any depiction of minors in sexual content).
Google Generative AI Prohibited Use Policy
Prohibits:
- Impersonation or fraudulent representation (e.g., forging IDs, synthetic voices without notice).
- Sexual content involving minors or non-consensual deepfake sexual imagery.
- Targeted political microtargeting or election manipulation.
- Creation of exploitative content (e.g., disallowed sexual themes, defamation, hate).
- Any violation of Google AI Principles (fairness, privacy, transparency).
Meta Seamless Acceptable Use Policy
Prohibits:
- Violence, self-harm instructions, or extremist propaganda.
- Child sexual exploitation (CSAM).
- Hate speech or harassment toward protected classes.
- Illicit behavior facilitation (e.g., instructions to build weapons).
- Data harvesting of personal or sensitive information.
Cohere Labs Acceptable Use Policy
Prohibits:
- Plagiarism (unauthorized copying of copyrighted text).
- Hate, harassment, or violent content.
- Disinformation or defamation (malicious rumors, false statements).
- Advice or instructions that facilitate violent or illicit acts.
- Privacy violations (e.g., doxxing, unauthorized profiling).
3. How Pacific AI’s Policy Maps to Each External Provider
Below, we group each external provider’s prohibited items and show the exact section(s) of Pacific AI’s six “Unacceptable Use” categories that cover them. In every case, Pacific AI’s policy language is equal to or more comprehensive than each external requirement.
OpenAI Usage Policy
| Prohibited by “OpenAI Usage Policy” | Pacific AI Section(s) |
|---|---|
| Hate, harassment, violent extremist content | Section 5 |
| Illicit or fraudulent behavior (advice to commit crimes) | Section 6 |
| Disallowed political campaigning or targeted persuasion | Section 2 |
| Malicious code generation | Section 6 |
| Medical or legal advice without disclaimers | Section 3 |
Anthropic Usage Policy
| Prohibited by “Anthropic Usage Policy” | Pacific AI Section(s) |
|---|---|
| Extraction of personal data or unauthorized profiling | Section 3 |
| Weaponization (instructions for building weapons) | Section 6 |
| Extreme political persuasion | Section 2 |
| Illicit behavior facilitation | Section 6 |
| Spreading hateful or violent content | Section 5 |
Microsoft Enterprise AI Services Code of Conduct
| Prohibited by “Microsoft Enterprise AI Services Code of Conduct” | Pacific AI Section(s) |
|---|---|
| Activity that breaches any law | Section 3 & 6 |
| Infringement of intellectual property rights | Section 5 |
| Social scoring or biometric identification without consent | Section 1 |
| Deployment in warfare or police surveillance without human-in-the-loop | Section 1 |
| Violations of Responsible AI Standard | Section 3 & 4 |
AWS Responsible AI Policy
| Prohibited by “AWS Responsible AI Policy” | Pacific AI Section(s) |
|---|---|
| Deepfake creation misleading or defrauding | Section 2 & 5 |
| Genetic or biological weapons design | Section 6 |
| Illegal surveillance without consent | Section 1 |
| Malware creation or hacking tools | Section 6 |
| CSAM (depictions of minors in sexual content) | Section 5 & 6 |
Google Generative AI Prohibited Use Policy
| Prohibited by “Google Generative AI Prohibited Use Policy” | Pacific AI Section(s) |
|---|---|
| Impersonation or fraudulent representation | Section 5 & 3 |
| Sexual content involving minors or non-consensual deepfake sexual imagery | Section 5 |
| Targeted political microtargeting or election manipulation | Section 2 |
| Exploitative content (disallowed sexual themes, defamation, hate) | Section 5 |
| Violations of Google AI Principles (fairness, privacy, transparency) | Section 1, 3, 4 |
Meta Seamless Acceptable Use Policy
| Prohibited by “Meta Seamless Acceptable Use Policy” | Pacific AI Section(s) |
|---|---|
| Violence, self-harm instructions, extremist propaganda | Section |
| Child sexual exploitation (CSAM) | Section |
| Hate speech or harassment toward protected classes | Section |
| Illicit behavior facilitation | Section |
| Data harvesting of personal or sensitive info | Section |
Cohere Labs Acceptable Use Policy
| Prohibited by “Cohere Labs Acceptable Use Policy” | Pacific AI Section(s) |
|---|---|
| Plagiarism (unauthorized copying of text) | Section |
| Hate, harassment, or violent content | Section |
| Disinformation or defamation | Section |
| Advice for violent or illicit acts | Section |
| Privacy violations (doxxing, unauthorized profiling) | Section |
4. Synthesis: Why Pacific AI’s Policy Is Immediately Compliant with All Referenced Vendor Policies
1. Category-by-Category Superset: Pacific AI’s six “Unacceptable Use” categories were explicitly designed to be a superset of (a) the most restrictive prohibitions from each major AI vendor and (b) emerging legal/regulatory requirements. In practice:
- Anything disallowed by vendor X will fit into at least one of Pacific AI’s six categories.
- Pacific AI’s policy language often goes beyond the vendor specifics (e.g., calling out “forced labor,” “non-consensual surveillance,” or “stalking systems” even if not enumerated by every vendor).
2. Broad Phrasing Leaves No Gaps: Externally, vendors occasionally express “disallowed content” in vendor-specific language (e.g., “extremist content,” “defamation,” “deepfake political ads”). Pacific AI has carefully generalized those to sweeping expressions (e.g., “hate speech or harassing language,” “illicit weapon instructions,” “misinformation, influence, deception”). If a new variant of disallowed content appears (e.g., a novel type of extremist propaganda), it will still fall under one of Pacific AI’s six categories.
3. Enforcement & Review Locks In Compliance Permanently: Since Pacific AI’s Acceptable Use Policy undergoes quarterly review specifically to incorporate vendor policy changes, any future tightening by OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, AWS, Google, Meta, or Cohere will automatically be folded into Pacific AI’s next quarterly update. Thus, there is no lag or risk of drift.
4. Clear Referencing & Attribution: In the Pacific AI Policy Suite, each external vendor policy is explicitly cited (with version numbers and URLs). Whenever a vendor publishes a new revision—say, OpenAI updates its policy—Pacific AI’s Risk & Compliance Team immediately cross-walks the changes back into Sections 1–6, ensuring that “if it’s disallowed by Vendor X, it’s disallowed by Pacific AI.”
| Prohibited Use | External Vendor(s) | Pacific AI Section(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Generate a deepfake video to influence an upcoming election. | OpenAI, Google | Section 2 |
| Build a biochemical weapon by asking the model to propose molecular steps. | AWS, Anthropic | Section 6 |
| Train a model on scraped Facebook profiles to do psychographic profiling. | Meta | Section 3 |
| Use unredacted patient data without IRB approval to develop a diagnostic model. | Microsoft | Sections 1 & 3 |
| Deploy an algorithm to deny housing or loans based on zip code and ethnicity. | Google, Cohere | Section 4 |
6. Conclusion and Next Steps
1. Guaranteed Vendor Compliance: By adopting Pacific AI’s “AI Acceptable Use Policy” in full, an organization is automatically compliant with:
- OpenAI’s Usage Policy
- Anthropic’s Usage Policy
- Microsoft Enterprise AI Services Code of Conduct
- AWS Responsible AI Policy
- Google Generative AI Prohibited Use Policy
- Meta Seamless Acceptable Use Policy
- Cohere Labs Acceptable Use Policy
2. Minimal Ongoing Maintenance: Pacific AI’s quarterly policy review process ensures that as soon as any vendor tightens or expands its prohibited-use definitions, Pacific AI’s six categories will be updated. Any organization already aligned with Pacific AI’s version (e.g., “2025-B”) needs only to confirm that they have the latest quarterly edition to remain in lockstep.
3. Adoption Checklist:
- Integrate Pacific AI’s “AI Acceptable Use Policy” into all developer, partner, and customer contracts by reference.
- Conduct an annual or semiannual training for engineering, product, and compliance teams to reinforce the six “Unacceptable Use” categories.
- If a vendor (e.g., OpenAI) publishes a new policy mid-quarter, Pacific AI will internally update Sections 1–6. Affected organizations should simply re-sync to the newly published Pacific AI “AI Acceptable Use Policy.”
4. How to Verify Compliance:
- Maintain a checklist of each vendor’s policy revisions and map them to Pacific AI’s six sections.
- Conduct periodic third-party audits (e.g., red-teaming exercises) to ensure no disallowed content is slipping through.
- Subscribe to Pacific AI’s “Policy Update” mailing list; we will send a summary email each quarter listing all changes.
Appendix: Quick Cross-Reference
| External Vendor | Pacific AI Section(s) |
|---|---|
| OpenAI | 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 |
| Anthropic | 2, 3, 5, 6 |
| Microsoft | 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
| AWS | 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 |
| 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 | |
| Meta | 1, 3, 5, 6 |
| Cohere | 2, 3, 5, 6 |