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This Website provides information about Originality.AI and the services we provide. These Terms outline (A) the terms and conditions of the purchase and sale of our services, and (B) our mutual commitments with respect to your use of this Website.
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Our services assist users to determine if content is Original Content and if content is factually accurate, i.e., if text is unique, human-created and accurate.
Original Content is unique when it is written specifically for the project for which the person claiming authorship is hired. Unique means purpose-written text that is not a word-for-word transcription of someone else’s work that a person claims to have authored. Original Content can also be authored by a legal entity other than a person (e.g., a corporation) as long as it is written by a person employed by or contracted to the authoring entity.
Original Content is human-created when it is not AI-generated, i.e., the text is written by a natural person (or by a natural person on behalf of a corporation, etc.).
Content is factually accurate when the information (facts, measurements, statistics, etc) it is providing are correct or true in all details.
Our services are available to web publishers and content marketers to help them a) identify content that is not unique (Plagiarism Check), b) identify content that has been AI-generated (Detect AI), and/or c) identify whether or not content is factually correct/accurate (Fact Check).
Our services are intended for use in a commercial, online setting – to ensure that content purchasers do not pay for Original Content with the belief (and at a price) that it was written by a natural person, whether payment is made to an individual directly or to a corporation or agency.
Our Plagiarism Check service is not suitable for identifying plagiarism in an academic setting and should not be used for that purpose. Academic plagiarism includes presenting someone’s else ideas as one’s own, even if different words are used to express the ideas. Our Plagiarism Check service cannot detect plagiarized ideas as required in academia.
Academic writing could be reviewed by our Detect AI service, but that is not what it was designed for and that use is not recommended. If used in an academic setting, it must be kept in mind that Detect AI results are probabilities and not definitive. Before disciplinary action could be taken or a decision could be made about whether or not to publish a piece, a further comprehensive and objective investigation would be required to determine, to the standard of proof applicable in academia, that an article, essay, or treatise was, in whole or in part, AI-generated.
In the case of academic writing represented as AI-generated for the purpose of, for example, demonstrating an advance in AI writing technology, the same limitations on relying on Detect AI alone would apply. The point here is that a Detect AI score could very well indicate a very low probability of AI generation for text written by a new or substantially enhanced AI writing technology. However, such a result would not be determinative because it could mean either that the AI technology was, indeed, “new and improved” or that it was written or enhanced by a natural person. If Detect AI returned a score indicating a high probability that the text was AI-generated in such circumstances, it could be an indication that the AI technology being demonstrated was not as new or improved as the programmers believe.
Our Fact Check tool is not completely reliable in determining the accuracy of all facts that are scanned, i.e. cannot with complete accuracy determine if facts and/or statements are completely true or false. Originality.AI provides the Fact Check tool “as is” and does not warrant that the functions contained in the software will meet your requirements or be error-free or completely accurate, and thus should not be solely relied upon for the purpose of checking facts, measurements, statistics, data, etc. It is the users responsibility to verify and check the accuracy and validity of any facts contained in the content scanned. Originality.AI will not be liable for any errors made by the Fact Check tool.
In order to use our services, you create an account and purchase credits.
After you create your account, you will be able to log in to the Originality.AI app. There you can create a team eligible to use your account and upload content to be scanned by either or all of our Plagiarism Check, Detect AI and/or Fact Check services. Please note that by creating a team (authorizing the use of your account by others), you are accepting responsibility to pay for scans initiated by all members of your team. You can see each team member’s activity on your Dashboard.
You will always know (in real-time) how many credits have been consumed and the charges to your credit card.
You pay for our services by purchasing credits. For our Plagiarism Check and AI Detection scans, each credit buys a 100-word scan. For our Fact Check scans, each credit buys a 10-word scan. Therefore, the cost to you of each scan depends upon the number of credits required which, in turn, depends upon the number of words scanned and whether you screen for plagiarism, AI generation, fact checking, or some combination of these three tools.
For example, if you upload 5,000 words for plagiarism screening only, your cost would be calculated by dividing 5,000 by 100 (scanned words per credit) to determine the number of credits required (50), and multiplying 50 by the price per credit. Please refer to the Website’s Pricing page for the current price of credits.
If you scanned 5,000 words for both plagiarism and AI generation, your cost would be 5,000 ÷ 100 = 50 credits per scan × 2 scans = 100 credits × the price per credit.
Alternatively, if you scanned 100 words for fact checking, your cost would be 100 ÷ 10 = 10 credits. However if you scanned 100 words for fact checking, AI generation and plagiarism, your cost would be (100 ÷ 10 credits) + (100 ÷ 100) = 11 credits.
Credits expire 2 years from the date of purchase.
Although we collect your credit card information so that you can purchase credits, we do not process payments directly, Payments are processed by Stripe, a payment processing company. Although you enter your credit card information on our site when purchasing credits, we do not use, retain, or store the information. It is transmitted to Stripe which processes the charge to your credit card. Once transmitted, we do not have access to any of your financial information.
Please note that when you provide us with your card information, you authorize Originality.AI to charge your card automatically whenever necessary to complete the scans you or a team member require.
When you use Originality.AI’s Plagiarism Check service, you understand and acknowledge that there may be copies of the scanned text that are not reported. Plagiarism Check reviews a live index of Google search results. If the copy of the scanned content is from a source not indexed by Google, Plagiarism Check will not detect it.
You acknowledge and understand that the only warranty we provide concerning Plagiarism Check is that all copies of scanned text found will be reported, as will their locations.
Originality.AI is neither responsible nor liable for the omission of copies of scanned text from reports provided to you. Our Plagiarism Check service reports the results of a scan of a live index of Google search results. It does not itself scan the entirety of the Internet looking for copies of scanned text. If, for example, text has not been indexed at the time of a scan, it will not have been picked up by Google’s search engine and Plagiarism Check will not report it.
Plagiarism has two aspects. You may be sold content that is represented as Original Content when it has been sold previously. You may also purchase content that is Original Content at the time you bought it but which the author subsequently resells representing it as Original Content to a subsequent purchaser(s).
Therefore, you may wish to scan content from time to time (1) to pick up copies that were missed previously because, for example, the content had not yet been indexed, and (2) to identify copies posted online after your content was posted.
Originality.AI is neither responsible nor liable in the event that its Plagiarism Check service returns a false positive, i.e., identifies a copy of your content that is not, in fact, a plagiarized copy. Directly compare any content identified as a copy of yours to determine if it is, in fact, identical before taking action.
When you use Originality.AI’s Detect AI service, you understand and acknowledge that you will be provided with a score from 0 to 100 reflecting the likelihood that the content scanned was produced using one of the popular GPT-3, GPT-2, GPT-NEO, ChatGPT, or GPT-J based AI writing tools. You understand and agree that a score of, for example, 90 means that 1 time out of 10 Detect AI will incorrectly flag content as probably AI-generated.
You acknowledge and understand that the only warranty we provide concerning Detect AI is that you will be provided with an assessment of the probability that scanned text is AI-generated. We do not guarantee the accuracy of the result (degree of probability) returned. Nor do we guarantee that we will test scanned text for generation by all AI writing tools. AI writing tools are constantly being introduced and improved. We endeavour to correspondingly enhance Detect AI but we do not guarantee our success in that regard. Should it be the case, the result of a Detect AI check may be that a determination of whether scanned text is AI-generated cannot be made.
Because its Detect AI service only reports a probability, Originality.AI is never responsible or liable for any actions taken or not taken based on a score reported, even if the score is 0% or 100%. If a Detect AI score gives you a reason to suspect content has been AI-generated, do not assert a probability as fact. Conduct an investigation by, for example, asking the content provider for research notes and early drafts or the revision history of the work.
When you use Originality.AI’s Fact Check service, you understand and acknowledge that there may be facts that are not reported and/or not reported accurately. Fact Check reviews a live index of Google search results. If the copy of the scanned content is from a source not indexed by Google, Fact Check may not detect it.
Originality.AI is neither responsible nor liable for the omission of copies of scanned text from reports provided to you. Our Fact Check service reports the results of a scan of a live index of Google search results. It does not itself scan the entirety of the Internet looking for copies of scanned text. If, for example, text has not been indexed at the time of a scan, it will not have been picked up by Google’s search engine and Fact Check will not report it.
Originality.AI is neither responsible nor liable in the event that its Fact Check service returns a false positive, i.e., identifies a fact as accurate when it is, in fact, inaccurate and/or partially inaccurate, and/or identifies a fact as inaccurate when it is, in fact, accurate and/or partially accurate.
Originality.AI provides the Fact Check tool “as is” and does not warrant that the functions contained in the software will meet your requirements or be error-free or completely accurate, and thus should not be solely relied upon for the purpose of checking facts, measurements, statistics, data, etc. It is the users responsibility to verify and check the accuracy and validity of any facts contained in the content scanned. Originality.AI will not be liable for any errors made by the Fact Check tool.
When you contract to purchase Original Content, you may wish to include this clause in the agreement with the content provider:
[You or your company name] regularly scans all purchased content using Originality.AI’s Plagiarism Check, Detect AI and Fact Check services. We are contracting to buy and you are promising to sell only original content that you personally create and that is not AI-generated. If you are an agency, you are promising to sell only Original Content created by a natural person employed or retained by you that is not AI-generated. Should an Originality.AI scan reveal that you sold us content that was not original or that you later resold, or that the content was, on a balance of probabilities, AI-generated, you agree to immediately refund any payments we made to you plus our cost of the Originality.AI scan(s).
To the fullest extent that may be disclaimed at law:
(a) Without limiting the generality or applicability of section iv. Warranty or subsection (b), immediately below, Originality.AI is not liable for failures to perform, failures to perform as described, or for delays in the performance of any obligations described in these Terms or elsewhere on our Website whether such failure or delay resulted wholly or in part from any factor(s) within or beyond our direct and immediate control.
(b) We are not liable for costs or losses of any nature that you incur as a direct or indirect result of using our services, including costs or losses resulting from delays in the delivery of our services, whether or not such delays are reasonable. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, we are not liable for costs or losses of any nature relating to delayed website launches or other openings or delayed closing dates (e.g., delays to the processing of a sale of a product or service on your website).
(c) We are not liable for costs or losses resulting from disputes, including from the outcome of legal disputes, between you and content providers.
(c) We are not liable to you in relation to the purchase and use or reliance on our services, or any delays related thereto whether within or beyond our control, whether for breach of contract, warranty, negligence, strict liability, in tort (including without limitation, negligence), or otherwise for pre-contractual or other representations (other than fraudulent misrepresentations) that result in (1) economic or commercial loss (including without limitation loss of revenue, profits, contracts, business, savings or anticipated savings); (2) any loss of goodwill or reputation; (3) any special, punitive, indirect, consequential, or incidental loss or damages (including without limitation, loss of use, loss of time, or inconvenience); whether such are suffered by you, your agent, or a third party.
(d) In no event will our total liability to you arising out of or in any way related to our sale of or your use of or reliance on one of our services exceed the total cost of the relevant scan.
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Originality.AI, its directors, officers, employees, contractor, subcontractors, Website content contributors, agents, co-branders, suppliers, subsidiaries, parent companies, and affiliates from any and all liabilities, losses, claims (including, but not limited to, claims for injunctive relief), demands, disputes, damages, losses, liens, causes of action, suits, civil, criminal, statutory, or administrative actions or proceedings, fines, taxes, assessments, penalties, judgments, and/or other expenses of any kind, nature, or description whatsoever (including, but not limited to, Originality.AI’s legal fees and expenses and costs of investigation) resulting from or in any way connected with (1) your use of the service you purchased from us; (2) your use of the results provided by one of our services; (3) your reliance for any purpose on results provided by one of our services; (3) privacy, tort, or other claims relating to the provision of personal information to Originality.AI that is not owned by you (which provision would be a violation of these Terms); and/or (4) your breach of these Terms.
Uploading content for the purpose of using our services has no impact on ownership of the content. In other words, Originality.AI acknowledges and agrees that it acquires no right, title, or interest in content uploaded on its Website. Further, if they are not the same party, uploading content to our Website has no impact on the respective intellectual property rights of the party that uploads the content and the party that claims authorship of the content.
In the alternative and without limiting the foregoing, Originality.AI hereby assigns to the party otherwise owing content uploaded to its Website all rights, title, and interests in and to the content it may have or acquire.
By uploading content to our Website, you grant to Originality.AI a perpetual, non-royalty-bearing, irrevocable, sublicensable, transferable, and worldwide license and right to retain and use an anonymized version of uploaded content to evaluate and improve our plagiarism, AI detection and fact checking engines and services, i.e., to test and train our detection technology. If you are not the owner of the content, you warrant to us that you have the consent of the owner to grant us this license and you agree to indemnify us in accordance with the Indemnification section of these Terms should you fail to obtain the required consent.
In the spirit of transparency and user control, we also provide an option for you to decide whether or not your anonymized content can be used to improve our AI model. By default, according to these terms, you agree to let us use your anonymized content. However, you may change this at any time in your account settings. Should you decide to opt-out, it will affect both past and future data associated with your account, disallowing us from using it for our model improvement purposes. We firmly respect your choice and will act accordingly. The decision to contribute to our model's improvement is at your discretion, and any change in your preferences will not affect your ownership of the content or our commitment to protecting your intellectual property rights.
In order to avoid irreparable injury to Originality.AI, in the event of your breach or threatened breach of these Terms, we may seek an injunction and/or other equitable relief restraining such breach or threatened breach in a court of law. Nothing in these Terms shall be construed as prohibiting us from pursuing any other remedies available for such breach or threatened breach, including the recovery of monetary damages from you.
Originality.AI may, at our discretion, assign, transfer, or subcontract any of our rights or obligations under these Terms to any third party. Any representations, warranties, and indemnification obligations made or undertaken by you will survive cancellation or termination of a transaction or your account or relationship with us.
Our delay in exercising any right or remedy under these Terms will never operate as a waiver of that right or remedy and will not affect our ability to exercise that right or remedy subsequently. We must agree to any waiver in writing.
These Terms supersede any other terms previously published by us and any other representations or statements made by us to you, whether oral, written, or otherwise.
You verify that any contact or other information provided to us in connection with a purchase and sale or possible purchase and sale is true and accurate.
These Terms of Service and any agreement of purchase and sale between you and Originality.AI shall be construed and governed by the laws of the province of Ontario, Canada. Any matters in dispute between you and Originality.AI shall be submitted to and determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in the province of Ontario. You irrevocably waive any claim of inconvenient forum.
You are free to browse the Website without cost or obligation.
You will only use the Website for lawful purposes.
Without our prior written consent, you may not:
You agree that you will:
iii. Disclaimer of all Warranties with respect to use of the Website
Our Website is provided on an “as-is” and “as-available” basis. Except as provided in these Terms and to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, we expressly disclaim all warranties, express or implied, with respect to our Website or use thereof including without limitation, any warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement.
We do not warrant that our Website will meet your requirements or that access to it will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, error-free, or that defects, if any, will be corrected. Except as expressly provided in these Terms, we make no warranties with respect to the accuracy, quality, or reliability of the information on our Website.
You agree that any material and/or data downloaded or otherwise obtained from our Website is used at your own risk and that you will be solely responsible for any damage to your computer or device, or for loss of data, that results from the download.
iv. Protection of our Intellectual Property rights and your license to use the Website
You agree that the content on our Website including text, graphics, software, sound (including spoken words and music), photographs, video clips, and content provided by sponsors, advertisers, or other users (“Intellectual Property rights”) is owned by Originality.AI or the applicable third party and is protected by copyright, trademark, patent, or other proprietary rights and laws.
You may not use or display any of our trademarks, logos, or service marks without our prior written consent. You may not use or display any other trademarks, logos, or service marks displayed on our Website without the permission of the owners.
You are granted a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable, limited license to view content on our Website for the purpose of obtaining information about and purchasing our services. Except as expressly provided in these Terms, nothing on our Website shall be construed as conferring any other license or right expressly, by implication, estoppel, or otherwise to any of Originality.AI’s or a third party’s Intellectual Property rights. All rights not expressly granted herein are reserved.
v. General Limitation on our Liability related to the use of our Website
You understand and agree that under no circumstances will we or our subsidiaries, affiliates, directors, officers, employees, contractors, subcontractors, Website content contributors, or agents be liable for any indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages including, without limitation, any loss of use, loss of profits, loss of data, loss of goodwill, cost of procurement of substitute services, or any other indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages resulting from or associated with your use of our Website. This limitation applies regardless of the manner in which damages are caused or the theory of liability, whether for breach of contract, tort (including negligence and strict liability), or otherwise resulting from (1) the use of, or the inability to use, the Website; or (2) the cost of procuring substitute services.
vi. Communication
You confirm that any contact information provided to us is true and accurate. If you reach out to us, you consent to us contacting you. You also consent to receive e-mails from us or on our behalf relating to our services. For further information, please review our Privacy Policy.
vii. Other Terms of Use of our Website
Originality.AI may, at our discretion, assign, transfer, or subcontract any of our rights or obligations under these Terms to any third party.
Our delay in exercising any right or remedy under these Terms shall never operate as a waiver of that right or remedy and shall not affect our ability to exercise that right or remedy subsequently. We must agree to any waiver in writing.
These Terms supersede any other terms previously published by us and any other representations or statements made by us to you, whether oral, written, or otherwise.
viii. Termination of our Website
We may, in our sole discretion, terminate or suspend the operation of our Website or your use of our Website without prior notice to you. We may do so for any reason that we, in our sole discretion, determine to be appropriate.
iX. Affiliate Disclaimer
This website may contain product affiliate links. When you click on an affiliate link placed on our website, we may receive a small commission or other form of compensation at no additional cost to you. Please assume that any links contained on our website may be affiliate links. Our use of affiliate links does not influence the products, services and websites that we share with you. This Disclaimer applies to all of the various means we use to communicate with you, including via this website, email, phone, social media, our products or otherwise.
You are free to use any of our free tools available here: https://originality.ai/free-tools without cost or obligation. The Terms stated below apply to all current and future Free Tools available on our website.
Subject to your compliance with these Terms, you may access and use our Free Tools. In using our services, you must comply with all applicable laws as well as our Privacy Policy, and any documentation, guidelines, or policies we make available on this website.
You may not use our Services for any illegal, harmful, or abusive activity. For example, you may not:
Use of Content Through Free Tools
Our Free Tools are created to generate and produce content based on specific outputs, that may be used by our users for personal or business reasons. None of our Free Tools claim to offer any professional opinion nor can they replace the skills, opinion, or output of a professional in any industry.
You may provide input to the Services (“Input”), and receive output from the Services based on the Input (“Output”). Input and Output are collectively “Content.” You are responsible for the Content that is generated through any of our Free Tools, including ensuring that it does not violate any applicable law or these Terms. You represent and warrant that you have all rights, licenses, and permissions needed to provide Input to our Services.
As between you and Originality.ai, and to the extent permitted by applicable law, you (a) retain your ownership rights in Input and (b) own the Output. We hereby assign to you all our right, title, and interest, if any, in and to Output.
Due to the nature of our Services and artificial intelligence generally, output may not be unique and other users may receive similar output from our Services. Our assignment above does not extend to other users’ output or any Third Party Output.
Our use of content. We may use Content to provide, maintain, develop, and improve our Services, comply with applicable law, enforce our terms and policies, and keep our Services safe.
Artificial intelligence and machine learning are rapidly evolving fields of study. We are constantly working to improve our Services to make them more accurate, reliable, safe, and beneficial. Given the probabilistic nature of machine learning, use of our Services may, in some situations, result in Output that does not accurately reflect real people, places, or facts.
When you use our Services you understand and agree:
OUR SERVICES ARE PROVIDED “AS IS.” EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT PROHIBITED BY LAW, WE AND OUR AFFILIATES AND LICENSORS MAKE NO WARRANTIES (EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY OR OTHERWISE) WITH RESPECT TO THE SERVICES, AND DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, SATISFACTORY QUALITY, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTIES ARISING OUT OF ANY COURSE OF DEALING OR TRADE USAGE. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ACCURATE OR ERROR FREE, OR THAT ANY CONTENT WILL BE SECURE OR NOT LOST OR ALTERED.
YOU ACCEPT AND AGREE THAT ANY USE OF OUTPUTS FROM OUR SERVICE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK AND YOU WILL NOT RELY ON OUTPUT AS A SOLE SOURCE OF TRUTH OR FACTUAL INFORMATION, OR AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR PROFESSIONAL ADVICE.
NEITHER WE NOR ANY OF OUR AFFILIATES OR LICENSORS WILL BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, INCLUDING DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, GOODWILL, USE, OR DATA OR OTHER LOSSES, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
If you are a business or organization, to the extent permitted by law, you will indemnify and hold harmless us, our affiliates, and our personnel, from and against any costs, losses, liabilities, and expenses (including attorneys’ fees) from third party claims arising out of or relating to your use of the Services and Content or any violation of these Terms.