John Snow Labs

John Snow Labs, the AI for healthcare company, provides state-of-the-art software, models, and data to help healthcare and life science organizations put AI to good use. Developer of Spark NLP, Healthcare NLP, Healthcare GPT, the Generative AI Lab No-Code Platform, and Medical Chatbot, John Snow Labs’ award-winning medical AI software powers the world’s leading pharmaceuticals, academic medical centers, and health technology companies.

As the creator and host of The NLP Summit, the company is committed to further educating and advancing the global AI community.

The models we publish on Hugging Face are available under a CC-BY-NC-ND license and must also conform to this Acceptable Use Policy. If you need to use these models for commercial purposes, please contact us at [email protected].

License Terms of Use for John Snow Labs Models on Huggingface Modelhub

Acceptable Use Policy

Introduction

John Snow Labs is committed to fostering an environment where open and independent machine learning research can thrive. We believe this is crucial for realizing the benefits of generative AI and ensuring robust assessments of its risks. Our models, available on Huggingface Modelhub, are designed to support this vision by encouraging responsible use and innovative applications in a way that respects legal and ethical standards.

Compliance with Laws

Users must comply with all applicable local, national, and international laws and regulations in their use of our models and any derivatives thereof. It is the user’s responsibility to ensure that their usage of these resources adheres to the stipulated legal frameworks.

Prohibited Use Cases

The use of our models, or any derivatives created from them, is subject to strict prohibitions if it involves or facilitates any of the following activities:

• Violence and Harm: Users must not engage in, promote, or incite violence, threats, hate speech, self-harm, sexual exploitation, or any targeting of individuals based on protected characteristics.
• Harassment and Abuse: Any activities that involve, promote, or facilitate harassment or abuse of individuals or groups are strictly prohibited.
• Sexual Exploitation, Harm, or Abuse: It is forbidden to encourage, facilitate, or engage in the exploitation, abuse, or endangerment of individuals, particularly children. This includes any involvement with child exploitative content or Child Sexual Abuse Material.
• Sensitive Information: Collecting, disclosing, or inferring sensitive personal or private information about individuals without proper legal authority or all necessary consents is prohibited.
• Fraud and Deception: Users may not misrepresent content generated by our models as human-created or use our models to create false identities or engage in deceptive activities. This includes but is not limited to:
• Propagation of spam or fraudulent activities such as catfishing and phishing.
• Creation or promotion of false reviews, defamatory content about real people, deepfakes, or intentionally false claims or misinformation.
• Synthetic Data for Commercial Uses: Generating synthetic data outputs for commercial purposes is not allowed. This includes using such data to train, improve, benchmark, enhance, or otherwise develop model derivatives, or any products or services connected therewith.

CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International

Attribution

When using or sharing our models or derivatives, proper attribution must be given in a manner specified by John Snow Labs, acknowledging contributions by John Snow Labs as outlined under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license.

NonCommercial

You may not use the licensed material for commercial purposes. Any use of our models or their outputs in commercial settings is strictly prohibited under this license.

NoDerivatives

If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material. This clause is intended to prevent the unauthorized or unacknowledged alteration of the models and their derivatives.

General

This license and its restrictions are intended to protect the integrity of the work and its use within the community, ensuring it aligns with our ethical standards and vision for open machine learning research. Compliance with these terms is mandatory for all users.

Failure to adhere to these terms may result in termination of access and legal action if warranted. Please use our models responsibly and with consideration for the broader impact of your work in generative AI.