Question about market rules against prohibited terms in product title.

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I've been following several EA's on the marketplace that included terms such as "OpenAI" or "Deep Seek" in their title. Recently, I noticed the names of these products have been altered so that these terms are omitted or changed from the product name. To my knowledge, sellers aren't allowed to change the names of their products once they're published. It seems like Mql5 made these sellers change their product name. Is there some rule about using these AI related terms in the product name? What about using OpenAI branding within the logo or mentioning OpenAI in the description?
 

I do not know - the sellers are able to change the names of their products or not ... and no idea about this/recent situation.

But I remember (it was many months ago) the time when the admins were making some kind of "cleaning the Market" from "AI robots" which had nothing to do with any AI in reality. How did I know? The users asked on the forum, and it was the reply of one of the admin (could not find this post now sorry).
But it was many months ago.

 

I read the rules out of curiosity and did not find any direct mention of the prohibition of such terms.

But I do remember this comment from MQ (auto-translation applied):

Plus the rules include the following:

https://www.mql5.com/en/market/rules#part_IV

3. The Product must not:

  • contain flashy/immodest titles of description sections or Product names;

11. The Administration does not disclose quantitative parameters used for description evaluation and may remove any Product from the Market showcase without explaining which recommendations have been violated.

22. The Administration may remove a Product from the Market showcase for an additional check or in case the Seller does not respond to the Administration's requests.

https://www.mql5.com/en/market/rules#part_V

4. The Administration has the right to subject the Product to any further inspections and tests that are not specified here.

 
Connor Michael Woodson:
I've been following several EA's on the marketplace that included terms such as "OpenAI" or "Deep Seek" in their title. Recently, I noticed the names of these products have been altered so that these terms are omitted or changed from the product name.

I wonder if the same will ever happen with product logos😁

 
Sergey Golubev #:

I do not know - the sellers are able to change the names of their products or not ... and no idea about this/recent situation.

But I remember (it was many months ago) the time when the admins were making some kind of "cleaning the Market" from "AI robots" which had nothing to do with any AI in reality. How did I know? The users asked on the forum, and it was the reply of one of the admin (could not find this post now sorry).
But it was many months ago.

It sounds like that was a one-off cleaning of the market because there's still dozens of products that claim to use AI. I wonder what the reason was for that though? There's no way to disprove whether or not an expert advisor uses AI since it's a compiled file.

 
Vladislav Boyko #:

I read the rules out of curiosity and did not find any direct mention of the prohibition of such terms.

But I do remember this comment from MQ (auto-translation applied):

Plus the rules include the following:

I didn't see anything specific in the market rules either. Maybe there's some sort of internal list of restricted terms. Maybe that list was updated recently to include the terms "OpenAI" or "Deep Seek", etc. and products that already included those names had to be retroactively changed. I would also like to know if it's okay to use API's as part of a market product such as integrating OpenAI API requests or DeepSeek API requests.

 
Connor Michael Woodson #:

It sounds like that was a one-off cleaning of the market because there's still dozens of products that claim to use AI. I wonder what the reason was for that though? There's no way to disprove whether or not an expert advisor uses AI since it's a compiled file.

As I remember - a lot of buyers complained in that time (that they bought the products with AI but in reality - it had nothing to do with any AI in the practical way of view) so it may be because of that.

For now - yes, it may be possible for AI to be included in some tool for example (for now - it/AI was included in MetaEditor), but that "case" was many months ago when words "AI" and similar ones in the name of the products were considered as simple marketing (promotion) situation.
 
Connor Michael Woodson:
I've been following several EA's on the marketplace that included terms such as "OpenAI" or "Deep Seek" in their title. Recently, I noticed the names of these products have been altered so that these terms are omitted or changed from the product name. To my knowledge, sellers aren't allowed to change the names of their products once they're published. It seems like Mql5 made these sellers change their product name. Is there some rule about using these AI related terms in the product name? What about using OpenAI branding within the logo or mentioning OpenAI in the description?

Anyway, if you are really interesting to get the official reply from admins (who are moderating the Market) so you can ask those questions on the following threads (admins are replying on those threads from time to time):


Market Product rating calculation now includes description quality - How to fix your product descriptions in the Market Marketplace
Market Product rating calculation now includes description quality - How to fix your product descriptions in the Market Marketplace
  • 2021.08.13
  • MetaQuotes
  • www.mql5.com
We have updated market rules regarding product descriptions more than two months ago. Forum on trading, automated trading systems and testing trading strategies. Flashy, intrusive, and annoying descriptions are not allowed
 
Connor Michael Woodson #:
I would also like to know if it's okay to use API's as part of a market product such as integrating OpenAI API requests or DeepSeek API requests.

I'm also curious if a market product can "communicate" with an AI service like OpenAi or DeepSeek. Using dll is explicitly prohibited for market products, which is not surprising.

Not sure about using WebRequest, but I guess using WebRequest is also prohibited, most likely. I am not clear if this rule prohibits WebRequest completely, or only for the purposes mentioned there:

https://www.mql5.com/en/market/rules#part_IV

6. The Seller shall not integrate and apply any third-party sales, accounting, license control and update management systems (including the ones using WebRequest features) in Products.
 
Sergey Golubev #:
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It's possible that the more recent issue isn't that the product claims to use AI, but rather that the title includes a specific third party AI such as 'OpenAI'. It could be a concern over trademark or maybe it's problematic to imply that the product is affiliated with OpenAI or some other service.
 
Vladislav Boyko #:

I'm also curious if a market product can "communicate" with an AI service like OpenAi or DeepSeek. Using dll is explicitly prohibited for market products, which is not surprising.

Not sure about using WebRequest, but I guess using WebRequest is also prohibited, most likely. I am not clear if this rule prohibits WebRequest completely, or only for the purposes mentioned there:

Rule 6 under Part IV seems like it's about overriding the built in Mql5 licensing system with your own private licensing server. I doubt this applies to all WebRequests, since News Filter is a very common feature for EA's and these use WebRequests. I think the potential issue is not that WebRequests are used, but that the WebRequests are being sent to OpenAI or DeepSeek. I previously assumed it was okay and acceptable, but the recent product name changes I mentioned earlier made me nervous about it and I don't know if its a violation to have a product that's using or mentioning OpenAI/DeepSeek and to what extent is allowed.

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