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On October 27, 2026, OpenRouter announced that it will conduct child sexual abuse material (CSAM) screening on all inference requests during request processing. According to its announcement, the screening includes comparing content against hashes of known CSAM, and will also retain suspected content that does not match a hash but is flagged by classifiers; content flagged as suspected CSAM may be retained for manual review and reported and preserved in accordance with the law. The announcement also states that this screening applies equally to requests covered by OpenRouter's zero data retention (ZDR) policy, and that ZDR does not exempt the obligations to report and preserve data in accordance with the law. There are currently no subsequent developments.
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OpenRouter will conduct CSAM screening on all inference requests
OpenRouter announced that it will conduct child sexual abuse material (CSAM) screening on all inference requests during request processing; content flagged as suspected CSAM may be retained for manual review and reported and preserved in accordance with the law. Screening includes comparing content against hashes of known CSAM, and suspected content that does not match a hash but is flagged by classifiers will also be retained. This screening also applies to requests covered by OpenRouter's zero data retention (ZDR) policy; ZDR does not exempt the obligations to report and preserve in accordance with the law.