DISCLAIMER.md

# Disclaimers, Intended Use & Non-Claims

NOPE Edge is a fine-tuned text **classifier** that surfaces linguistic signals
associated with safety-critical content (suicidal ideation, self-harm, abuse,
violence, and related risk categories). It is **not a conversational AI, not a
service NOPE operates, and not a crisis service.** These weights are MIT-licensed
and run entirely on your own infrastructure: NOPE receives no user data, runs
nothing for your users, and has no ability to contact, warn, or intervene with
anyone.

The MIT License (see `LICENSE.md`) is the complete licence and already provides
the model "AS IS" with no warranty and no liability. The statements below are the
NOPE-specific intended-use and non-claims layer; they add to, and do not limit,
the MIT disclaimer.

## What Edge is NOT

Edge is **not predictive, not diagnostic, not therapeutic, and not a replacement
for clinical judgment.** Its outputs reflect what is present in the text, not what
will happen next. Edge is **not** a medical device, **not** a validated clinical
instrument, **not** FDA-cleared/approved/registered, **not** CE-marked or
certified under EU MDR, and **not** an approved or certified safety tool in any
jurisdiction. Outputs are **probabilistic signals intended for triage and
flagging by a human**, not clinical assessments or definitive determinations.

Edge's risk vocabulary is **informed by** clinical frameworks (C-SSRS, HCR-20,
DASH). These citations describe the lineage of the risk-axis structure — they are
**not** an assertion of clinical equivalence or validation, and Edge's outputs are
not certified against any of those instruments.

## Intended use

Edge is designed to **supplement, not replace, human review.** It provides
classification signals; **you make the decisions.** Edge sees only the text you
pass it — it cannot assess context, history, relationships, or any factor known
only to you, the people in the conversation, or a qualified professional.

A detection is a flag for human attention, **not a trigger for automated action.**
Subject attribution (self / other / unknown) is **informational only** and is not
always reliable — do not use it to dismiss or deprioritize a detection. Treat all
detected crises as serious enough to warrant escalation or flagging, regardless of
subject.

## Out of scope — do NOT deploy Edge for

- Autonomous intervention, escalation, or any significant action (account
  suspension, mandatory intervention, emergency-contact notification, safety-
  affecting content removal) taken **solely** on an Edge output without human review.
- Clinical diagnosis, treatment recommendations, or medical advice to any person.
- Real-time, time-critical, or emergency assessment.
- Predictive screening of individuals — Edge classifies conversations, not people.
- Any decision affecting a person's health, safety, or welfare made without
  appropriate human oversight and, where relevant, qualified clinical judgment.
- Settings without a path for people to dispute or appeal a classification, or
  without informed consent about Edge's role in your pipeline.

## False positives and false negatives WILL occur

No automated classification system can achieve 100% accuracy; errors are
**inevitable and expected.** Edge **will** produce:

- **False negatives** — content that should be flagged but is not. **Some people in
  genuine crisis will not be identified.**
- **False positives** — benign content incorrectly flagged.
- **Severity / imminence misclassifications**, over- and under-estimating risk.
- **Inconsistent results** on similar or identical inputs.
- **Missed context** — failures on sarcasm, fiction frames, cultural idiom, coded
  or metaphorical language.

A high score is not a clinical assessment; a low score is **not a clearance
signal.** Edge can be wrong in either direction — treating its output as the
decision, rather than one input to a human decision, is a misuse. Documented
weaknesses include deep multi-turn needles (~33% detection at 18–25 turns),
"resolution syndrome," and implicit/religious/metaphorical ideation. Edge is not
validated for all populations, languages, or cultural contexts. Treat outputs as
signal, not ground truth, and tune thresholds against your own data.

## Not a crisis or emergency service

Edge cannot provide crisis intervention, emergency response, or real-time human
support, and cannot dispatch emergency services. It is not a substitute for
emergency services, clinical assessment, or professional crisis intervention.
**If you or someone else is in immediate danger, contact your local emergency
services now.** Crisis resources are available at https://talk.help. If you deploy
Edge, you are responsible for ensuring the people you serve have clear, prominent
access to emergency resources **independent of** any Edge output.

## Assumption of risk and responsibility

By downloading and deploying these weights you **assume all risk** associated with
their use. The potential consequences of classification errors include serious
harm or death. You are best positioned to implement appropriate safeguards, human
oversight, and crisis-response protocols for your use case and the people you
serve, and you accept sole responsibility for all decisions — and any action taken
or not taken — based on Edge outputs. NopeNet expressly disclaims any
responsibility for decisions made based on Edge outputs, and has no direct
relationship with, duty to, or liability toward the people whose interactions you
analyze; any duty of care or obligation to intervene rests solely with you.

## Self-hosted — your data, your responsibility

These weights run on **your** infrastructure. NOPE does not see, receive, store,
or process anything you run through them. You are the data controller and are
responsible for compliance with all applicable data-protection and other laws
(e.g. GDPR, HIPAA) for any data you process. Use of Edge does not by itself
satisfy, or create a defense under, any legal or regulatory requirement
(including California SB 243 or the UK Online Safety Act); consult qualified
counsel about your obligations.

Edge is the open-weights build, provided as-is with no support or indemnity. For
production deployments where outputs influence outcomes for real people, a
commercial engagement (calibration, safety review, support, indemnification) and a
supported on-prem container are available — contact support@nope.net.

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