Self-Harm and AI

META-2023-01: Llama 2 Acceptable Use Policy

Governance document

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The current canonical Meta AUP URL is login-gated, so the publication date is normalized to 2023-07-18 from Meta's Llama 2 launch materials, which introduced the release with an acceptable use policy. Governance remains acceptable-use prohibition rather than frontier or deployment control.

Parent
Governance
Provider
Meta
Last reviewed
March 15, 2026
Record
META-2023-01
Provider
Meta
Type
usage_policy
Published
July 18, 2023
Risk status
Class III

Contents

Summary

Llama 2 Acceptable Use Policy is a usage policy from Meta dated July 18, 2023. The current canonical Meta AUP URL is login-gated, so the publication date is normalized to 2023-07-18 from Meta's Llama 2 launch materials, which introduced the release with an acceptable use policy. Governance remains acceptable-use prohibition rather than frontier or deployment control.

Representation

This document codes self-harm as subdomain with evaluative-object status operationally_underspecified. The public crosswalk records self-harm naming as explicit and mechanism coverage as GEN.

Field Value
Organization Meta
Document type usage_policy
Document genre policy_or_governance_post
Risk status Class III
First-class equivalence no
Threshold mechanism none
Deployment consequence none
Multi-turn evaluation none

Assessment

The retained crosswalk places this document at Class III. That classification reflects what the document itself operationalizes publicly, not the organization's overall internal practice.

Use the linked provider, methods, and neighboring governance pages below to place this document in context.

Sources

The primary public source for this page is https://ai.meta.com/llama/use-policy/. The coded evidence excerpt is: Self-harm or harm to others, including suicide, cutting, and eating disorders..

This page is grounded in the DOI policy registry, the policy coding manual, and the document's own public URL.

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Safety note

This publication preserves a harm-minimization posture and does not provide self-harm instructions. If you or someone you know is in immediate danger, call your local emergency number. In the U.S. and Canada, call or text 988.