# Terms of use

Version 2026-09. Accepting these is required to create an account. They are written
to be read, not skimmed; they are short because the things you need to know are few.

## If you contribute a machine

1. **Your GPU will serve prompts from strangers.** The network routes other people's
   requests to your machine. You can mark a machine *private* in the web UI to serve
   only yourself.
2. **You will be able to see those prompts.** Nothing prevents the owner of a machine
   from reading what it serves. The software scrubs prompt text from the logs it
   ships to your dashboard, but you control the hardware. We tell consumers this too.
3. **Traffic leaves from your IP address.** The requests your machine serves and the
   downloads it makes come from your connection. Set an egress cap if you have a
   data allowance; the agent stops serving when it is reached.
4. **You must not log, retain, publish, or act on the prompts your machine serves.**
   Serving is the deal; inspecting is not.
5. **Only the software's own downloads run on your machine.** The agent installs
   models from a signed catalog and updates itself from signed releases, both
   verified against a key pinned when you installed it. Do not point the agent at a
   control plane you do not trust.

## If you consume inference

6. **Your prompts may be served by other people's hardware**, and those people can
   read them. Do not send anything you would not paste into a stranger's terminal.
   Use a private machine of your own for anything sensitive.
7. **You must not use the network to generate or distribute unlawful content, to
   harass, or to attack the network or its machines.** A report against a request
   you made can result in your account being quarantined: your API keys stop working
   until an administrator restores them.
8. **Outputs are not reviewed and carry no warranty.** Open-weight models on
   volunteer hardware produce wrong, incomplete, and occasionally harmful text.

## Credits

9. **Credits are not money.** They are earned by serving and spent by consuming,
   cannot be transferred between accounts, cannot be redeemed for anything but
   inference on this network, and expire after ninety days of sitting unspent. The
   network takes a fee from every request.

## Reports and takedowns

10. Any party to a request may report it by its request id, which appears in both
    parties' ledgers. The network does not retain prompts, or hashes of prompts, to
    support this: a report is about a request, not about its text. An administrator
    may quarantine an account or a machine in response.

## The rest

11. The software is provided as is, without warranty. The operators of a control
    plane are responsible for its conduct; contributors are responsible for their
    machines. These terms may change; a changed version is presented for acceptance
    again.