Terms & Conditions

Welcome to Beyond. We’re so glad you’re here. Please read the following terms and conditions before using our Services.You will be agreeing to and are bound by them as long as you are using these Services. Accepting this Agreement is a condition of using the Services provided by Beyond. If you do not have the legal authority to enter this Agreement, do not understand this Agreement, or do not agree to the Agreement, please do not use the Services. Agree with us? Great, read on! By downloading or using the app, these terms will automatically apply to you – you should make sure therefore that you read them carefully before using the app. You’re not allowed to copy or modify the app, any part of the app, or our trademarks in any way. You’re not allowed to attempt to extract the source code of the app, and you also shouldn’t try to translate the app into other languages or make derivative versions. The app itself, and all the trademarks, copyright, database rights, and other intellectual property rights related to it, still belong to Beyond. This Agreement is effective between you and us on the day of your registration, access to or use of the Services (as further defined below) .

General

1) Beyond is an experiment with AI technology. We would like to experiment with the idea of bringing back historic personalities to a digital platform and communicate with them. The idea is currently implemented using large scale pretrained language models. It is important to remember that AI in general, and language models specifically, still have limitations. The model can sometimes give inaccurate or inappropriate responses, so you should take any information provided by the app with a pinch of salt.

2) As a part of the first phase of the experiment, we fine tuned a large language model on Mahatma Gandhi's media interviews and public speeches available on the internet (Sources are listed in the reference section). This corpus of text is the basis of the AI’s ability to try and predict the responses. The AI system is not the substitution of any of these historic personalities.

Access and the use of the services

1) Creation of an account via registration is currently not required. Beyond may, at its sole discretion, make the creation of an account mandatory for all or certain services in the future. Beyond will notify the user about such changes if and when they occur.

2) The Beyond app stores and processes personal data that you have provided to us, to provide our Service. It’s your responsibility to keep your phone and access to the app secure. We therefore recommend that you do not jailbreak or root your phone, which is the process of removing software restrictions and limitations imposed by the official operating system of your device. It could make your phone vulnerable to malware/viruses/malicious programs, compromise your phone’s security features and it could mean that the Beyond app won’t work properly or at all.

3) You should be aware that there are certain things that Beyond will not take responsibility for. Certain functions of the app will require the app to have an active internet connection. The connection can be Wi-Fi or provided by your mobile network provider, but Beyond cannot take responsibility for the app not working at full functionality if you don’t have access to Wi-Fi, and you don’t have any of your data allowance left.

4) If you’re using the app outside of an area with Wi-Fi, you should remember that the terms of the agreement with your mobile network provider will still apply. As a result, you may be charged by your mobile provider for the cost of data for the duration of the connection while accessing the app, or other third-party charges. In using the app, you’re accepting responsibility for any such charges, including roaming data charges if you use the app outside of your home territory (i.e. region or country) without turning off data roaming. If you are not the bill payer for the device on which you’re using the app, please be aware that we assume that you have received permission from the bill payer for using the app. Along the same lines, Beyond cannot always take responsibility for the way you use the app i.e. You need to make sure that your device stays charged – if it runs out of battery and you can’t turn it on to avail the Service, Beyond cannot accept responsibility.

5) Users should not use the app for any illegal, commercial or business purpose.

6) Users must not initiate chats that are obscene, defamatory, abusive or threatening.

7) Users must not use the app to do anything that could harm our reputation.

8) Trying to hack the app or to get around any of the app's security or access control features,or to modify, adapt, translate, or create derivative works of the app is strictly prohibited .

9) Please note that the AI in general, and language models specifically, still have a lot of limitations. In case of any answer that hurts your religious beliefs or harms you in any way please take the initiative to report the response through the Report feature from the app.

10) If you wish to contact us about messages you have received via the app, or want to reach out please make use of the Contact us option from the app.

11) Posting the responses/screenshots of the app to social media is strictly the user's prerogative. Beyond app is not responsible for the content user posts on social media. It is highly advised not to post/share offensive/derogatory content against specific groups of interest such as ethnicity, color, religious beliefs etc.

12) Beyond does not have any inclination/favor towards any of the political/religious stand that might be present in the chat responses. Beyond only provides a platform for experimenting the communication with the historic personalities.

13) The chat responses are not altered in the interest of the Beyond team.

14) The minimum age to use the app is restricted as 18 & above. Beyond is not responsible for the unrecommended use of the app for the age group under 18.

15) The AI responses are expected to have discontinuity issues.

Data Privacy Policy

1) Beyond doesn't store any personal identifier which could identify a specific user.

2) Personal information like age group, screen name and geographic information are stored only for analytics purposes and not shared with any third party services.

3) As we are continuously working on improving the app experience, the chat responses may be used for improving the model abilities.

Changes to these Terms

1) From time to time, we may make changes to these terms based on the changes in law or regulations that affect the app, industry requirements or standards that affect the app, changes and updates to the app.

2) If we plan to make any changes on these terms, the Beyond team will give you reasonable advance notice.

3) We will notify you of the planned changes through push notifications via the app.

4) We recommend that you check the app regularly for notifications. If you are unhappy with our changes to the terms, you can choose not to accept the changes to the Terms and you should not use the app from the date that the changes come into force.

5) The latest version of these Terms will be available to you to read.

App Updates

From time to time we may make free updates available to you via the app store where you obtained the app to improve the app's performances, to fix bugs, to address security issues, to enhance functionality, and/or to improve the user experience. We recommend that you install updates as soon as reasonably possible after we make them available to you. Third Party Services or Third-Party Components

1) The Services may be linked to certain third-party websites and other third-party services, independent from the Services (collectively, “Third Party Services”). You hereby acknowledge that Beyond has no control over such Third Party Services, and further acknowledge and agree that Beyond is not responsible for the availability of Third Party Services, and does not have responsibility or liability for any goods, services, content, advertisements, products, or any materials available on and/or through such Third Party Services.

2) You further acknowledge and agree that Beyond shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss whatsoever caused, or alleged to be caused, by or in connection with use of or reliance on any goods, services, content, products or other materials available on or through any Third Party Services. Most Third Party Services provide legal documents, including terms of use and privacy policy, governing the use of each such Third Party Services, their contents and services. We encourage you to read these legal documents carefully before using any such Third Party Services.

3) The Services may use or include third party software, files and components that are subject to open source and third-party license terms (“Third Party Components”). Your right to use such Third Party Components as part of, or in connection with, the Services is subject to any applicable acknowledgements and license terms accompanying such Third Party Components, contained therein or related thereto. If there is a conflict between the licensing terms of such Third Party Components and these Terms of Use, the licensing terms of the Third Party Components shall prevail only in connection with the related Third Party Components. These Terms of Use do not apply to any Third Party Components accompanying or contained in the Services and Beyond disclaims all liability related thereto. You acknowledge that Beyond is not the author, owner or licensor of any Third Party Components, and that Beyond makes no warranties or representations, express or implied, as to the quality, capabilities, operations, performance or suitability of Third Party Components. Under no circumstances shall the Services or any portion thereof (except for the Third Party Components contained therein) be deemed to be “open source” or “publicly available” software. Support for the App, how to tell us about problems and complaints. For help, use the Contact Us option inside the app. You can also email the Beyond team if you want to let us know about any errors or performance issues with the app, or if you have a complaint. We will endeavor to respond to your email within 30 days of receipt.