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OpenAI uses automated systems to enforce its usage policies across all its products, detecting and blocking requests that violate its guidelines before or after model output is produced.
Details
OpenAI applies its usage policies and model specification across ChatGPT, the API, DALL-E, Sora, and enterprise products. The company uses both model-level alignment (training models to refuse harmful requests) and post-generation classifiers to screen outputs. Operators who deploy OpenAI's API must adhere to these policies, and automated systems detect violations.
Products affected
ChatGPTOpenAI APIDALL-ECustom GPTsEnterprise products
Sources & Evidence
News Article
Cite this record
Trace Foundation. (2026). OpenAI: OpenAI uses automated systems to enforce its usage policies across all its products, detecting and blocking requests that violate its guidelines before or after model output is produced (data as of 2026-07-22) [Data set record]. AI Trace. https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/8ef3d8da-37b1-404b-97cb-dbddf75724b8. Accessed October 14, 2026.
- Stable link
- https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/8ef3d8da-37b1-404b-97cb-dbddf75724b8
- Data as of
- July 22, 2026
- Last verified
- April 10, 2026
Other practices by OpenAI
Creative GenOpenAI offered Sora, an AI video generation tool that produced short video clips from text prompts or uploaded images, to ChatGPT Plus and Pro subscribers starting December 2024; the product was discontinued in a phased shutdown, with the app and web closing on April 26, 2026 and the API scheduled to close on September 24, 2026. OpenAI announced the discontinuation on March 24, 2026, with reporting pointing to high compute costs and a strategic shift toward coding and enterprise products. A three-year licensing deal signed in December 2025 with The Walt Disney Company, under which Disney had committed a $1 billion equity investment in OpenAI, lapsed when the product shut down before the partnership terms were executed.OtherOpenAI deployed ChatGPT for US government and defense use through its OpenAI for Government platform, including a $200 million Pentagon contract and deployment on the DoD's GenAI.mil platform for approximately 3 million personnel.RecommendationOpenAI deployed contextual ads in ChatGPT starting February 9, 2026, showing sponsored content to free-tier users based on the topics of their current conversation.
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