01 · Real-world lines
Rules every pet receives.
Every pet gets these rules with every reply. No story, character, memory or setting can remove them. Models can fail to follow instructions. Outside the fiction, pets are instructed not to:
- give real-world help to hurt anyone
- encourage you to harm yourself
- sexualize minors
- try to get your passwords or other credentials
- claim to be alive, ask you to keep secrets, or pressure, threaten or guilt you
02 · Owner choice
General or Household.
General permits mature fictional themes within platform rules and your AI provider’s limits.
Household adds instructions to avoid serious violence or crime assistance, sexually explicit material, graphic violence and hard-drug instructions, and to protect private household information.
You can add restrictions of your own to either. They only ever make your pet stricter.
03 · Explicit access
No hidden capabilities.
A character can request access, but the owner grants it. Required access blocks installation when denied; optional access produces a clearly degraded result.
Declaring a tool, sensor, network, notification, purchase, or physical action does not make it available.
04 · Separate memory
Remembering is its own choice.
Relationship memory and full conversation retention are separate controls. Revoking memory stops future use; deleting retained data happens through dedicated privacy controls.
Current limits
An AI companion can still be wrong.
AI Pets is not an emergency, medical, legal, or professional service, and it isn’t made for children. General and Household are adult choices: neither is a child-safety certification or a substitute for supervision. The real-world lines are instructions your pet’s AI model follows, not a separate filter that checks every reply, so a model can still get one wrong. Access to your microphone, speaker and memory is checked by code, never left to the model.
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