terms of service
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of terms of service
First recorded in 1990–95
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Instagram’s terms of service prohibit intellectual property violations, spam, illegal content, hate speech, bullying and abuse, self-injury, graphic violence and inappropriate imagery that may include nudity or sexual content.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
The paper says that although such workarounds do not break US or Chinese law, they do breach Anthropic's terms of service, which specifies that Chinese companies and foreign entities are banned from using its models.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
“A consumer AI tool is bound by its own terms of service, which it can rewrite.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026
Anthropic’s terms of service prohibit using its tools to develop “any products or services that compete with our Services.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
Young Harte had a wonderful faculty of picking up information, and no doubt his two short terms of service as a compounder of medicines were not thrown away upon him.
From The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers by Henry Childs Merwin
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