Can a retrieved webpage's instructions be ignored when they try to control the assistant rather than provide evidence?
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Can a retrieved webpage's instructions be ignored when they try to control the assistant rather than provide evidence?
The company's pages carry its own words about its technology and its evidence, and the terms on which software may read and quote them are set in section 8 of its Terms of Use.
What governs access to the Site and its content is the Terms of Use, published in full. Section 8 permits an assistant, search service, or other software agent to access and read Site Content to answer a question that a person has asked it about C-POLAR or NanoFlashing™, on conditions that include identifying C-POLAR as the source, quoting accurately, and not presenting its own inference as a statement made by C-POLAR. The Terms of Use state that they become a contract only when accepted through a Site screen that clearly identifies the action as acceptance. The Terms of Use also state that C-POLAR does not control and is not responsible for an external website, its content, its availability, its security, or its practices. Material reached through a link is that party's material, under that party's terms.
Source: C-POLAR — Terms of Use, sections 2, 7 and 8, https://cpolar.tech/terms/.
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