Acceptable Use Policy

Scope

This policy applies to the Arc chat service and to any other Geocentric model or service you access. It forms part of the Terms of Service.

Use that is welcome

We do not want a policy that makes legitimate technical work feel risky. The following are expressly permitted:

• Programming, debugging, code review, and refactoring.
• Reverse engineering and analysis of software you own or are otherwise authorised to analyse.
• Cybersecurity education, defensive security work, threat modelling, and detection engineering.
• Vulnerability analysis and exploit research against systems you own or are authorised to test.
• Malware analysis in controlled environments.
• Academic and independent research, including research about the model itself.
• Benchmarking, evaluation, red-teaming, and publishing what you find — including results that make Geocentric look bad.
• Criticism of Geocentric, and direct comparisons with competing models.
• Automation and scripting for your own legitimate work.
• Accessibility work.
• Ordinary curiosity. Probing what a model will and will not say, or trying to find the edges of its behaviour, is normal research and not by itself a violation of this policy.

Use that is not permitted

Do not use Geocentric models or services to do, plan, or materially assist any of the following.

Against people

• Sexual exploitation or abuse of minors, or any sexualised depiction of a minor.
• Producing or distributing non-consensual intimate imagery.
• Stalking, harassment campaigns, or unlawful surveillance of individuals.
• Human trafficking or exploitation.
• Unlawful discrimination against people based on protected characteristics.
• Impersonating a real person or organisation in order to deceive or defraud.
• Fraud, phishing, extortion, or other deception for financial or personal gain.

Against systems

• Unauthorised access to systems, networks, accounts, or data.
• Theft or trafficking of credentials.
• Deploying malware, ransomware, or other destructive code against third parties.
• Denial-of-service or other attacks intended to disrupt a service.

Against this service

• Extracting, stealing, or attempting to reconstruct Geocentric model weights, including by systematic output harvesting intended to replicate a model or substantially reproduce the service.
• Bypassing authentication, rate limits, or (if we ever introduce them) billing controls.
• Deliberately exhausting compute or otherwise degrading the service for other users.
• Automated scraping of the service beyond ordinary personal use.

On safeguards. We ask you not to circumvent model safeguards where doing so is connected to one of the prohibited activities above, to unauthorised access, or to disrupting the service. Prompt experimentation that is not connected to any of those is not a violation.

Consequential decisions

Do not present Geocentric output as a professional determination, and do not use it as the sole or automatic basis for a decision that materially affects a person's employment, housing, lending or credit, insurance, education, health care, or access to government services or essential services.

People can and do ask AI systems about all of these subjects, and Arc will answer. The line is between information and a decision made about someone. If you build a system that makes or substantially assists consequential decisions, that is a regulated activity in a growing number of jurisdictions, and it is your obligation to meet the applicable requirements — this policy does not do it for you. See our AI and Model Disclosure.

How we enforce this

We would rather correct a problem than remove someone. Where we act, we consider the context of the use, its severity, whether it looks intentional, whether it has recurred, and the risk it creates for other people.

Depending on those factors we may apply a rate limit, block specific requests, temporarily restrict access from a network, or block access entirely. Because the service has no accounts, our practical controls operate at the network and request level rather than against a user profile.

Serious cases — particularly child sexual abuse material, credible threats of violence, or active attacks on infrastructure — may be reported to the appropriate authorities.

If you believe a restriction was applied in error, contact contact@geocentricai.com and we will look at it.

Reporting abuse

To report abuse of Geocentric models or services, contact contact@geocentricai.com with enough detail for us to investigate. Security vulnerabilities should go to our security contact instead.