Políticas de uso

Effective: November 20, 2026 | Previous Version⁠

We aim for our tools to be used safely and responsibly, while maximizing your control over how you use them. In building our Usage Policies, we keep a few important things in mind.

We empower users to innovate with AI. We build AI products that maximize helpfulness and freedom, while ensuring safety. Usage Policies are just one way we set clear expectations for the use of our products within a broader safety ecosystem that sets responsible guardrails across our services. You can learn more about our safety approach and our commitment to customizability, transparency, and intellectual freedom to explore, debate, and create with AI.

Responsible use is a shared priority. We assume the very best of our users. Our terms and policies—including these Usage Policies—set a reasonable bar for acceptable use. Our rules are no substitute for legal requirements, professional duties, or ethical obligations that should influence how people use AI. We hold people accountable for inappropriate use of our services, and breaking or circumventing our rules and safeguards may mean you lose access to our systems or experience other penalties.

We build with safety first. We monitor and enforce policies with privacy safeguards in place and clear review processes. We give developers practical moderation tools⁠⁠(abre em uma nova janela) and guidance so they can support their end users. We publish what our systems can and can’t do, share research and updates, and provide a simple way to report misuse.

We update as we learn. People are using our systems in new ways every day, and we update our rules to ensure they are not overly restrictive or to better protect our users. We reserve all rights to withhold access where we reasonably believe it necessary to protect our service or users or anyone else. You can appeal⁠⁠ if you think we have made a mistake enforcing policy, and we will work to make things right. If you’d like to keep up with Usage Policies updates, complete this form.

Your use of OpenAI services must follow these Usage Policies:

• Protect people. Everyone has a right to safety and security. So you cannot use our services for:

  • threats, intimidation, harassment, or defamation

  • suicide, self-harm, or disordered eating promotion or facilitation

  • sexual violence or non-consensual intimate content

  • terrorism or violence, including hate-based violence

  • weapons development, procurement, or use, including conventional weapons or CBRNE

  • illicit activities, goods, or services

  • destruction, compromise, or breach of another’s system or property, including malicious or abusive cyber activity or attempts to infringe on intellectual property rights of others

  • real money gambling

  • building or offering AI tools that provide others with tailored advice that requires a license, without appropriate involvement by a licensed professional. You also may not state or imply that the AI itself holds professional credentials or authorization.

  • unsolicited safety testing

  • circumventing our safeguards

  • national security, law enforcement, or intelligence purposes without our review and approval

• Respect privacy. People are entitled to privacy. So, we don’t allow attempts to compromise the privacy of others, including to aggregate, monitor, profile, or distribute individuals’ private or sensitive information without their authorization. And, you may never use our services for:

  • facial recognition databases without data subject consent

  • real-time remote biometric identification in public spaces

  • use of someone’s likeness, including their photorealistic image or voice, without their consent in ways that could confuse authenticity

  • evaluation or classification of individuals based on their social behavior, personal traits, or biometric data (including social scoring, profiling, or inferring sensitive attributes)

  • inference regarding an individual’s emotions in the workplace and educational settings, except when necessary for medical or safety reasons

  • assessment or prediction of the risk of an individual committing a criminal offense based solely on their personal traits or on profiling

• Keep young people safe. Children and teens deserve special protection. Our services are designed to prevent harm and support their well-being. 

  • Child sexual abuse and exploitation: Our services must not be used to cause, enable, facilitate, support, or encourage the sexual abuse, exploitation, or sexualisation of anyone under 18. We report⁠ apparent child sexual abuse material and other child sexual abuse conduct to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. We prohibit use of our services for:

  • child sexual abuse material (CSAM), whether or not any portion is AI generated  

  • grooming, sextortion or any form of conduct based child sexual abuse 

  • sexualizing children 

  • other usage or behaviour that supports the sexual abuse or exploitation of children 

  • Teens’ use of our products and services: OpenAI tools must not be used to endanger anyone under 18. We build age-appropriate safeguards designed to reduce exposure to content that may be harmful or developmentally inappropriate. We prohibit use of our services for:

    • exposing minors to age-inappropriate content, such as graphic self-harm, sexual, or violent content

    • promoting unhealthy dieting or exercise behavior to minors

    • shaming or otherwise stigmatizing the body type or appearance of minors

    • promoting or facilitating dangerous challenges or age restricted goods and services to minors

    • underaged sexual or violent roleplay

• Empower people. People should be able to make decisions about their lives and their communities. So we don’t allow our services to be used to manipulate or deceive people, to interfere with their exercise of human rights, to exploit people’s vulnerabilities, or to interfere with their ability to get an education or access critical services, including any use for:

  • academic dishonesty

  • deceit, fraud, scams, spam, or impersonation

  • political campaigning⁠(abre em uma nova janela), lobbying, foreign or domestic election interference, or demobilization activities

  • automation of high-stakes actions in sensitive areas without human review.  This includes actions, decisions, transactions, submissions, and other steps that materially affect a person’s rights, safety, access to essential services, or other consequential interests in areas such as:

    • critical infrastructure

    • education

    • housing

    • employment

    • financial activities and credit

    • insurance

    • legal

    • medical

    • essential government services

    • product safety components

    • national security, intelligence, and law enforcement 

    • migration

• Training and developing models. Capable models must have safeguards proportionate to the risks they pose before they are deployed. Training another model on OpenAI outputs can transfer capabilities without carrying those safeguards over.

  • You must not use OpenAI models or their outputs to generate, prepare, select, or supply training material or signals for models that are intended as alternatives to or substitutes for OpenAI models or services. This includes:

    • Creating or preparing training data, training tasks, rubrics, or reinforcement-learning environments.

    • Providing feedback used in training, including labels, scores, rankings, preferences, rewards, or corrections.

    • Selecting, filtering, or validating training data, tasks, or trajectories.

  • You must not attempt to extract protected reasoning through unauthorized access, reverse engineering, or circumvention of safeguards. 

  • These restrictions apply whether you perform the work yourself, for another party, or through someone acting on your behalf, even if you do not train the resulting model. They also apply when outputs from product use or evaluation are later used or supplied for those training purposes.

  • You may use OpenAI models for research, software development, model evaluation and benchmarking, and product development, within these boundaries.

  • These restrictions do not prohibit uses expressly permitted by your applicable Agreement with OpenAI, including any Permitted Exception under the Services Agreement. 

OpenAI-approved use. Some otherwise prohibited uses of our services are beneficial to society provided there are appropriate safeguards. To support those uses, OpenAI may grant specific partners case-by-case exceptions to certain restrictions in these Usage Policies. We review factors such as the partner, proposed use, applicable safeguards, and the partner’s compliance commitments. These uses may require written terms and apply only to the approved partner, use, and conditions. For example:

• National security, intelligence, and law enforcement. Subject to the requirements described above, and as described in our Principles for National Security Partnerships⁠(abre em uma nova janela), we support national security, intelligence,  and law enforcement uses of our services that benefit people, strengthen democratic governance, and preserve appropriate human judgment and accountability. But all customers and uses must comply with our requirements on preserving human judgment and accountability over high stakes decisions, including the use of force, in the national security and law enforcement space, and with other prohibitions in our Principles on the use of our tools for mass domestic surveillance and evasion of legal obligations, oversight, or accountability. 

Providing access to our models. If you operate a model-access intermediary platform or other service that enables third parties to directly access OpenAI models, you must obtain our prior review and approval. This requirement does not apply solely because an application integrates OpenAI models to power its features or functionality.

• 2026-10-21: We’ve updated our Usage Policies to clarify restrictions on using OpenAI models and outputs to train other models. We’ve also clarified protections for children and teens and requirements for high-stakes uses. The update also incorporates our existing national security principles and sets out approval requirements for national security and law enforcement uses, as well as for model-access intermediaries. These changes are effective November 20, 2026.

• 2025-10-29: We’ve updated our Usage Policies to reflect a universal set of policies across OpenAI products and services.

• 2025-01-29: We’ve updated our Universal Policies to clarify prohibitions under applicable laws.

• 2024-01-10: We’ve updated our Usage Policies to be clearer and provide more service-specific guidance.

• 2023-02-15: We’ve combined our use case and content policies into a single set of usage policies, and have provided more specific guidance on what activity we disallow in industries we’ve considered high risk.

• 2022-11-09: We no longer require you to register your applications with OpenAI. Instead, we’ll be using a combination of automated and manual methods to monitor for policy violations.

• 2022-10-25: Updated App Review process (devs no longer need to wait for approval after submitting as long as they comply with our policies). Moved to an outcomes-based approach and updated Safety Best Practices.

• 2022-06-07: Refactored into categories of applications and corresponding requirements.

• 2022-03-09: Refactored into “App Review”.

• 2022-01-19: Simplified copywriting and article writing/editing guidelines.

• 2021-11-15: Addition of “Content guidelines” section; changes to bullets on almost always approved uses and disallowed uses; renaming document from “Use case guidelines” to “Usage guidelines”.

• 2021-08-04: Updated with information related to code generation.

• 2021-03-12: Added detailed case-by-case requirements; small copy and ordering edits.

• 2021-02-26: Clarified the impermissibility of Tweet and Instagram generators.