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Instella-VL-1B Model [RESEARCH-ONLY RAIL-MS]

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Section III: CONDITIONS OF USAGE, DISTRIBUTION AND REDISTRIBUTION

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END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Attachment A

AMD Responsible AI Use Policy

AMD is committed to the responsible use of its Artificial Intelligence
(AI) products and technologies (“AMD AI”).  AMD AI may include
artificial intelligence or machine learning technologies that use
algorithms to analyze data and generate output using predictions based
on patterns in data.  This policy explains the uses that AMD
specifically prohibits.

If you use any AMD AI, you are agreeing to use the AMD AI in compliance
with applicable laws and not for any of the following prohibited uses.

Prohibited Uses:

1) No Illegal Acts.  Do not use AMD AI in violation of any applicable
national, state, local, or other jurisdictional law, rule, regulation,
or sanction.

2) No Explicit Content.  Do not use AMD AI to submit (as input),
generate, or disseminate content depicting violent or sexually explicit
content or to create sexual chatbots.

3) No Harm.  Do not use AMD AI for any potentially harmful uses,
   including fraud, deception, discrimination, abuse, or harassment,
   including the following:

   a) Harm or abuse of a minor, including grooming and child sexual
      exploitation.

   b) Impersonation of human beings for purposes of deception.

   c) Generation or dissemination of information you know to be false
      for the purpose of harming others.

   d) Intentionally defame, disparage, or otherwise harass others.

   e) Intentionally attempting to materially distort the behavior of a
      person in a manner that causes or is likely to cause that person
      or another person physical or psychological harm.

   f) Providing medical advice or interpretation of medical results that
      is intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice,
      diagnosis, or treatment.

   g) Engaging in the unlawful or unauthorized practice of any
      profession, including financial, legal, medical, health, or
      related professional practices.

   h) Judgment of, discrimination against, or harm to individuals or
      groups based on legally protected characteristics or categories,
      online or offline social behavior, or known or predicted personal
      or personality characteristics, including any of the foregoing
      uses in social credit systems.

4) No High-Risk Activity.  Do not use AMD AI in any high-risk activities
 or applications that create a risk of personal injury, death, or
severe property or environmental damage, including in weapons or
military applications.

5) No Personal Information.  Do not use AMD AI to collect, process, or
disclose personal data, including heath or sensitive personal
information, without the necessary rights or consents.

6) No Infringement.  Do not use AMD AI to generate or disseminate any
information that infringes upon or misappropriates the intellectual
property rights of others, including copyright, trademark, patent, and
trade secret rights, rights to privacy, and publicity rights.

7) No Malware.  Do not use AMD AI to generate or disseminate malware or
any other content to be used for the purpose of facilitating unpermitted
access to, or use of, computer systems or data.

8) No Obfuscation.  Do not inappropriately obfuscate or fail to disclose
to end users the presence of AI in any application in which AMD AI is
deployed, along with any known risks or dangers of using AI without
appropriate safeguards, oversight and human control.

9) No Reliance.  Do not rely on any information generated using AMD AI
without assessing it for accuracy, potential for harm, or other specific
risks applicable to the use case.