Acceptable Use Policy
What you can and can't do on Layers. Takedown and abuse reporting.
Banned use cases
Layers may not be used for:
- CSAM — absolute prohibition.
- Election manipulation — no campaigns targeting election outcomes without explicit approval and regulatory compliance.
- Deepfakes of real people without documented consent.
- Regulated verticals without disclosure — gambling without age-gating, pharma without required disclaimers, firearms in restricted geographies, etc.
- Harassment campaigns — targeting specific individuals.
- Fraudulent activity — fake-engagement purchase, bot accounts, identity deception.
- Spam — unsolicited messaging.
- Malware distribution.
- Intellectual property infringement.
Violators face account termination.
Content moderation
Pre-generation
Every generation is evaluated by Vertex safety filters against Google's safety policies (hate, harassment, sexually explicit, dangerous, violence, child safety).
Post-generation
A generation flagged with safetyFailed = true is excluded from ad
selection and flagged for review. Safety failures cannot be
overridden.
Takedown
To report content that violates the AUP:
- DMCA / IP: dmca@layers.com.
- CSAM or imminent harm: trust@layers.com — prioritized.
- Defamation / harassment: legal@layers.com.
Include:
- A link or identifier for the content.
- Nature of the violation.
- Your role (affected party, representative, concerned citizen).
We do not publish a specific turnaround SLA on takedown requests; CSAM and imminent-harm reports are triaged first.
Appeals
Affected account holders can appeal to appeals@layers.com.
Disclosure obligations
Generated UGC must be disclosed as AI-generated where required by law (California SB 942, EU AI Act transparency obligations, etc.). Layers provides the metadata tagging / labeling hooks — use of the platform commits you to surfacing those disclosures in your end-user experience.