OnlyFans rewrote its Terms of Service; the text still contains no clause about chatbots

The desk reloads five OnlyFans documents every Monday and compares each version with the previous one, sentence by sentence. The 26 October 2026 capture of the Terms of Service page still read "Last updated: August 2024". The 2 November capture reads "Last updated: October 2026". The text grew from 36,566 to 42,793 characters; 186 sentences were added, removed or rewritten. The 9 November capture is identical to the 2 November one. The Contract between Fan and Creator, the document that governs each purchase, changed the same week and carries the same date.

In early October, several publications announced a ban on chatbots and automated messaging tools for 1 November. The text in force contains neither the word "chatbot", nor "bot", nor "automated", nor "automation". The August 2024 version did not contain them either. What changed is elsewhere, and can be read in the sentences below.

What is new

A clause on data collection and access to content, absent from the August 2024 version: "You agree that you will not use any manual or automatic tool or process designed to collect any data or information from Content or Direct Services, or to circumvent any measure that controls access to Content or Direct Services in any way." It is followed by a training prohibition: "You may also not use Content or Direct Services to train or enhance any software, machine learning or artificial intelligence system."

A clause on third parties running an account: "If you are a Creator and a third-party assists you with the management or operation of your Creator account, this does not affect your legal responsibility. Our relationship is with you, and not with any third-party, and you will be legally responsible for ensuring that all Content posted and all use of your account complies with the Terms of Service and applicable laws." It extends the block on agencies and account control that appeared in the help centre between 28 September and 5 October.

A reservation by the platform about its own services, placed in the "Our rights and obligations" section after the paragraphs on moderation tools: "We may provide platform services to Creators to improve Creator Interactions. These systems may process Content, including direct messages, and may use artificial intelligence and machine learning-enabled functionalities." No help page and no post from the platform describes such a service to date.

A rule on AI-generated content: "You can only share Content that has been generated, altered, or enhanced by artificial intelligence ("AI Generated Content") if: it clearly features the verified Creator; a User can clearly tell that the Content is AI Generated Content with a signifier such as #ai, or #AIGenerated; and it is in keeping with our Terms of Service and Acceptable Use Policy." The help centre already said as much; this is the first time the rule enters the terms themselves.

A new term, "Direct Services", appears fifteen times: it refers to paid services provided by OnlyFans itself, with subscriptions, trials and automatic renewal.

Three words removed

In the list of cases where OnlyFans may suspend an account without notice, the August 2024 version read: "we think you have or may have seriously or repeatedly breached the Terms of Service". The October 2026 version reads: "we think you have or may have breached the Terms of Service". The words "seriously or repeatedly" are gone. The rest of the mechanism, suspension "without warning or Notice and for as long as is necessary to review the relevant facts" followed by possible forfeiture of earnings, already existed in 2024.

What did not change

The platform's liability cap, the greater of 100% of fees paid and 5,000 US dollars, is unchanged. Help article 213, "Can I use an AI chatbot on OnlyFans?", was not modified over the period. The Acceptable Use Policy still reads "September 2025".

What the text does not say

It names no type of tool, and no explicit prohibition aimed at agencies or at messaging management software was found on this page. The general clauses quoted above may nonetheless apply to some uses of such software, and other platform texts remain applicable (Acceptable Use Policy, Community Guidelines, help centre). The text does fix two things agencies will have to read closely: the creator answers for everything a third party does on her account, and any tool that collects data from content or circumvents an access control falls outside the terms. The exact reach of "collect any data or information" and "circumvent any measure that controls access" is defined nowhere in the document.

Method: raw page texts captured on 26 October, 2 November and 9 November 2026; sentence-by-sentence comparison; third-party capture of 29 October on the Wayback Machine. Quotations are reproduced as they stand.