Last updated: 2026-09-29
These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your use of Infinite Story (the "Service"). By checking the mandatory acceptance checkbox during registration you agree to be bound by these Terms. Your acceptance is recorded together with a timestamp and the version of these Terms you accepted, so we can always show which version applied to you at any point in time.
The Service is currently offered as a public beta. Features, behavior and these Terms may change more frequently than in a finished product (see Section 11 and Section 12).
Infinite Story is an AI-assisted interactive story writing platform. Users create stories and write prompts or make choices; new chapters are generated by large language models (LLMs) based on that user input and on prior story content. Stories can branch into multiple paths at choice points.
Stories marked public can be read by anyone, including visitors who do not have an account. Section 4 explains what "public" means for licensing purposes.
You may hold one account per person. You are responsible for keeping your login credentials secure and for all activity under your account. Notify us if you believe your account has been compromised.
The minimum age to register is 16. Some content areas of the Service are age-gated and require you to self-declare that you meet the applicable age requirement before access is granted; we rely on the accuracy of that declaration.
You retain ownership of the text, images and other material you write or upload ("Your Content"). By submitting Your Content to the Service, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide license to host, store, process, display and distribute it within the Service, to the extent necessary to operate the Service. Processing includes sending relevant content to our AI providers to generate chapters and related output, see our Privacy Policy for details on that data flow.
If you set a story to public, you additionally grant other users of the Service a license to read, continue, branch and use that story (or parts of it) in crossover stories, within the Service. This is a core, intentional feature of the platform: making a story public lets other users build on it. Stories kept private are not shared with other users and are not subject to this additional license.
Continuation lock. The owner of a story can switch on the continuation lock (Only I and people I invite can continue). While it is on, only the owner and the people they invite may continue or branch the story, and only they may use it in crossovers. The additional license above then covers reading only. Fan-fiction stories (Section 8) start with the lock switched on.
Uploads, in particular images, must be relevant to your own stories, characters or themes, and you must hold the necessary rights to upload and use them on the Service. The Service is not a general-purpose file host; using it to store or host files unrelated to your stories, characters or themes is prohibited. We may remove content that violates this rule.
Users can create and share "themes" that include custom CSS and links to external resources (for example background images). The user who creates a theme is solely responsible for the legality of that CSS and of every external URL it references, including that they hold the necessary rights or license, and that the linked resources do not perform tracking, fingerprinting or otherwise malicious behavior. In plain words: CSS is the styling code that decides how a page looks, and fingerprinting means quietly identifying a visitor's device in order to track them. When you save a theme, you re-affirm this responsibility. We may block or remove a theme, with or without notice, if it is reported or found to violate this Section.
Chapters and other output generated with the help of large language models are machine-generated. They may be inaccurate, contextually inappropriate, or, despite the filters we apply, unintentionally similar to existing copyrighted works. The Service does not guarantee the factual accuracy of generated content. The user who triggers a generation is responsible for the prompts and choices they submit, and for the decision to keep, edit or publish the resulting content. Generated images carry a machine-readable marker identifying them as AI-generated; where a user has edited or written parts of a story themselves, those parts remain the author's responsibility. See our Disclaimer for further limitations.
If you ask the Service to write about characters or worlds from someone else's protected work, the output is fan fiction based on that work. Generating it for yourself is allowed. Sharing it is governed by Section 8. For fan fiction the Service can prepare a source brief: a short list of characters, setting and facts about the work, written in its own words. The brief contains no text from the work.
You agree not to use the Service to:
Any registered user can create a group: a shared shelf of stories with a name, a description and a content label (original, public domain or fan fiction). Before you first use groups you accept the group rules, which form part of these Terms:
Groups are open to every logged-in user or joinable by invitation only. Groups and fan-fiction stories are shown only to logged-in users. A fan-fiction story keeps the visibility its author chose, and its continuation lock (Section 4) starts switched on. A story can also be created as fan fiction directly. Its owner can remove the mark if the story is not fan fiction. Members of an invite-only group can read the Private stories on its shelf. Membership alone never grants the right to continue a story whose lock is on. When the source of a group is a work whose author has asked fan-fiction sites not to host works based on it, we show a warning, and stories based on it may be removed when the rights holder asks. Group owners and moderators may remove stories and members from their group. The disclaimer on a fan-fiction group states that it is not affiliated with the rights holders. It grants no permission to use their work. The author of each story remains responsible for it.
We use an automated NSFW text and image check together with reports from users and rights holders. Automated checks can hide content until a person reviews it. They never close an account on their own. Anyone can report a story or a group with the report button, and that includes every story on a group's shelf. Rights holders without an account can use the email route on our Copyright page. A report needs the exact location, an explanation of why the content is illegal or breaks these Terms, your name and email, and a statement that it is made in good faith. We confirm receipt, decide promptly (we aim for 72 hours for copyright reports and 7 days for everything else) and tell you the result. A copyright report hides the reported story or group at once while we review it. Other reports never hide content before a person has looked at it. When we hide or remove your content, restrict a group or suspend your account, we tell you what we did and why. We name the rule or law it rests on and say whether automated tools were involved. You can reply to that message within six months to have the decision reviewed, and you remain free to use an out-of-court dispute settlement body or the courts. Accounts that repeatedly break these Terms lose access to groups first and then to the Service. Our contact point for authorities and users under the EU Digital Services Act is the email address on the Imprint, in German or English.
Use of certain features (in particular AI generation) is metered in "credits". Credits have no monetary value, are not redeemable for cash, and cannot be transferred between accounts except as expressly enabled by the Service. We may adjust, reduce or revoke credits in cases of abuse, fraud or violations of these Terms.
During the current public beta the Service is provided free of charge: there is no purchase option, and any premium tier or credit allotment you receive is granted to you at no cost. We may introduce paid tiers or credit packages at a later stage. If we do, we will present the applicable prices and terms clearly before you commit to any payment, and your continued use of paid features will be optional.
The Service is beta software. We do not guarantee any particular level of availability or uptime, and features, pricing and credit costs may change at any time.
We may update these Terms from time to time. Material changes will be announced within the Service, and we may require you to re-accept the updated Terms before continuing to use it. The version and date of the Terms currently in effect are shown at the top of this page.
You may delete your account at any time; see our Privacy Policy for how account deletion affects your data. We may suspend or terminate your account if you violate these Terms.
(1) We are liable without limitation for intent and gross negligence, for damages arising from injury to life, body or health, and under the German Product Liability Act (Produkthaftungsgesetz).
(2) In cases of simple negligence, we are liable only for the breach of essential contractual obligations (cardinal obligations). Essential contractual obligations are those obligations whose fulfilment makes the proper performance of the contract possible in the first place and on whose observance you, as our contracting party, may regularly rely. In such cases, our liability is limited to the foreseeable damage typical for this type of contract at the time of conclusion.
(3) In all other respects, liability for simple negligence is excluded; this applies in particular to indirect damages, loss of data and loss of profit, in each case subject to paragraphs (1) and (2).
(4) The above limitations of liability also apply in favour of our legal representatives and vicarious agents. See also the availability note in our Disclaimer: the Service is a free public beta and there is no claim to uninterrupted availability.
These Terms are governed by the law of the Federal Republic of Germany, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. If you are a consumer with habitual residence in another EU country, you additionally enjoy the protection of any mandatory provisions of the law of that country that cannot be derogated from by agreement. If any provision of these Terms is found invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in full force and effect.