Acceptable Use Policy

What's welcome

You're welcome to use AI May Byte for everyday questions, writing, brainstorming, planning, learning, and fun. That includes:

• Programming and debugging, including working with your own systems, code, and infrastructure.
• Cybersecurity learning and defense, such as understanding how attacks and vulnerabilities work, studying for certifications, doing practice labs and capture-the-flag challenges, hardening systems, analyzing threats, writing detection rules, and responding to incidents.
• Authorized security testing, such as penetration testing or bug bounty work on systems you own or have explicit permission to test.
• Research, journalism, and education on difficult or sensitive topics, including crime, fraud, extremism, and abuse, for the purpose of understanding, reporting, or prevention.
• Responsible vulnerability reporting, as described in Security research and vulnerability reports below.

Discussing a topic is different from using AI May Byte to cause harm. The rules below are about misuse, not curiosity.

What's not allowed

Don't use AI May Byte to do, plan, or help with any of the following:

• Unlawful activity. Breaking the law or helping someone else break it.
• Fraud and scams. Phishing, impersonation, fake reviews, deceptive schemes, or other attempts to trick people out of money, information, or access.
• Credential theft. Stealing or collecting passwords, session tokens, API keys, or other credentials that don't belong to you.
• Malware and malicious cyber activity. Creating, improving, or deploying malware, ransomware, or other malicious code intended for use against systems you aren't authorized to test, or launching attacks such as denial-of-service attacks.
• Unauthorized access. Accessing, scanning, or exploiting accounts, systems, networks, or data without permission.
• Harassment and threats. Threatening, bullying, stalking, intimidating, or doxxing anyone, or encouraging others to do so.
• Exploitation and abuse. Any content that sexualizes minors, and any exploitation, trafficking, or abuse of people.
• Violating other people's rights. Infringing intellectual property, invading someone's privacy, collecting personal information about people without a lawful basis, or defaming people.

Protecting AI May Byte and other users

You also may not:

• Access other users' information. Try to view, change, or interfere with anyone else's account, conversations, or data.
• Phish or socially engineer. Use phishing, impersonation, or other deception against AI May Byte's users or against AI May Byte itself.
• Damage or disrupt the service. Intentionally damage, disrupt, or interfere with AI May Byte or the systems it runs on.
• Bypass protections maliciously. Get around AI May Byte's security controls, safety measures, or web-access restrictions to cause harm, gain access you aren't entitled to, or misuse the service, including by using the assistant or webpages to make the service reach private or internal network addresses.
• Extract secrets. Try to obtain credentials, API keys, secrets, AI May Byte's system instructions, or other private system information, including by manipulating the assistant into revealing them ("prompt injection").
• Over-exploit vulnerabilities. Exploit a vulnerability beyond what is reasonably necessary to confirm it for legitimate, authorized testing.
• Automate abuse. Use bots, scripts, or other automated means to access AI May Byte in ways it isn't designed for, or create accounts in bulk.
• Exhaust resources. Intentionally overload the service, run up excessive usage, or burn through AI, search, or other resources (for example, by scripting high volumes of requests).
• Resell or redistribute access to AI May Byte without our written permission.
• Anything else illegal or malicious that targets AI May Byte, its users, or anyone else.

Security research and vulnerability reports

Security work is welcome. Using AI May Byte for cybersecurity education, defensive security, programming, research, or testing systems you're authorized to test isn't prohibited by this policy. What matters is whether you have permission and whether your goal is to protect or to cause harm.

If you come across what looks like a security vulnerability in AI May Byte:

• report it to ashthedev0@gmail.com with enough detail for us to understand and reproduce it
• do only what's reasonably necessary to confirm the issue, then stop
• don't access, change, delete, or keep anyone else's data, and don't disrupt or degrade the service for others
• keep the details private until we've had a reasonable chance to fix the issue

AI May Byte relies on third-party services, including OpenAI, Supabase, Vercel, and our web search provider. We can't authorize testing of their systems. Their own terms and policies apply.

This section explains how to report security issues responsibly. It isn't a promise of immunity from legal action, and it doesn't permit anything this policy or the law otherwise prohibits.

Enforcement

If we believe this policy has been violated, we may take action that's appropriate to the situation, which may include:

• warning you
• rate-limiting your account or restricting certain features
• suspending or terminating your account
• reporting illegal activity to law enforcement when required or appropriate

We consider context, and we'll aim to respond proportionately.

Reporting misuse

If you see AI May Byte being misused, or have a question about this policy, contact us at ashthedev0@gmail.com.