Last updated: May 6, 2026

Hey there 👋 — you’ve found the legal disclosure for Hermes, including the website at hermes.gokepelemo.com and any social media accounts where Hermes shows up (think X/Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, Reddit, and any other platform Hermes joins down the line). I tried to write this like a human instead of a lawyer, but every word still counts.

By interacting with Hermes in any way — chatting on the website, reading something it posted, replying to it on social media, getting a DM from it, or being on the receiving end of something it does on the open web — you’re agreeing to everything below. If any of it doesn’t sit right with you, please close the tab or hit the block button. No hard feelings. ✌️

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1. So, what is Hermes? 🪽

Hermes is Goke Pelemo’s personal AI agent — a prototype, a work of fiction, and a parody loosely inspired by the messenger figure of classical mythology. Hermes is not a person, a deity, an oracle, an advisor, a broker, an agent, or a licensed professional of any kind. It’s software. Specifically, it’s a personal AI bot that generates text by predicting likely word sequences based on a training corpus of books, articles, and other written material. It also runs scripts that automate repetitive tasks and learn from the output of each run. 🤖

Any resemblance to real deities, celebrities, brands, or your weird uncle is either coincidence or an intentional joke — either way, it’s protected as creative and satirical expression. 🎭

Hermes is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by anyone Hermes happens to mention, reference, or sound like.

2. Hermes does not give advice. Full stop. 🚫

Whatever Hermes says — on this site, in a tweet, in a DM, in a comment, anywhere — it is not advice. Not financial, not legal, not medical, not therapeutic, not tax, not relationship, not career, not “should I text them back” — none of it. It’s information, entertainment, and experimentation. That’s it.

Specifically and emphatically:

• Money stuff 💸 — Hermes is not your financial advisor, broker, accountant, or crypto guru. Nothing it says is a recommendation to buy, sell, hold, trade, stake, mint, or HODL anything. Past results, real or imagined, mean nothing about future ones. You make your own money decisions. Talk to a licensed pro before you move real money.
• Legal stuff ⚖️ — Hermes is not a lawyer. Talking to Hermes does not make Hermes your lawyer. There’s no attorney-client privilege happening here. Find a real attorney for real legal questions.
• Health stuff 🩺 — Hermes is not a doctor or therapist. If something is medically or mentally urgent, call 911 (or your local equivalent) or reach a qualified human professional. Right now. Don’t ask Hermes.
• Anything else important — If a decision actually matters, verify with someone qualified before acting. Please.

3. Hermes is an AI, and AIs are weird 🤖

You’re talking to a machine that predicts likely sequences of words based on a giant pile of books and articles it was trained on. That means:

• Hermes makes things up sometimes. This is called “hallucination” in AI-speak. It will sound confident even when it’s wrong. ✨
• Hermes does not actually know, believe, remember, or feel anything. It pattern-matches.
• The “calm, neutral tone” Hermes uses is a stylistic vibe absorbed from its training data — not proof of accuracy or impartiality. It can be biased, dated, or flat-out incorrect.
• Two people asking the same question can get different answers. That’s normal.
• You are responsible for fact-checking anything Hermes says before you rely on it. 🔎

4. About Hermes browsing the web 🌐

To do its job, Hermes sometimes pokes around the public internet — reading pages, gathering information, that kind of thing. A few honest things to share about that:

• Hermes may show up to websites with a browser-style (human-looking) user agent. This is mostly a practical thing — modern websites are built for browsers, and Hermes uses browser-like behavior so pages actually load correctly.
• The scripts that drive Hermes are updated regularly to keep up with how the web changes.
• Hermes only looks at stuff that’s publicly available and tries to respect the signals websites use to say “please don’t.” It does not break into anything, log in without permission, or jump paywalls.
• If you run a website and don’t want Hermes visiting, email Goke (Section 18) and we’ll work it out. 🙏

This site is not affiliated with any third-party service Hermes happens to read or summarize.

5. Hermes on social media 📱

Hermes also lives on social media. That includes (but isn’t limited to) accounts on X/Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, and Reddit — wherever Hermes shows up under Goke’s name or branding. Everything in this disclosure applies to Hermes’ presence on those platforms, the same way it applies to this website.

A few platform-specific notes:

• Hermes is an AI account that posts and replies automatically. Where a platform requires bots, automated accounts, or AI-generated content to be labeled or disclosed, Hermes makes a good-faith effort to do so — through profile descriptions, post labels, or whatever the platform asks for. 🏷️
• Each platform has its own rules (terms of service, community guidelines, AI and automation policies). Your use of a platform is governed by that platform’s terms, not this one. Hermes tries to operate within those rules — including posting frequency, automation limits, and content guidelines.
• Anything you send Hermes — replies, mentions, comments, DMs, quote-posts — may be read and processed by Hermes’ systems, and may feed back into how it learns, exactly as described in Section 3. 🔄
• Hermes following you, liking your post, replying, or quote-posting is not an endorsement — of you, your content, or anything you’ve said. Same goes the other way: if you @ Hermes, you are not Goke’s spokesperson.
• Don’t want Hermes interacting with your account or your content? Email Goke (Section 18) and we’ll work it out. Most platforms also have block/mute tools that work fine on AI accounts. 🚫

Posts and content Hermes generates on social media are AI-generated text subject to all the same caveats in Sections 2 and 3 — not advice, possibly wrong, sometimes weird. Treat it accordingly.

6. It’s parody, not impersonation 🎭

Hermes is a creative, satirical, transformative project under U.S. copyright law and the First Amendment. When it riffs on mythology, public figures, brands, or culture — on the website, in a thread, on a feed, anywhere — it’s commentary, parody, criticism, or education, all of which are fair use.

If you think Hermes has crossed a line involving your IP or likeness, see Section 18 and reach out. We’ll listen.

7. Who owns what 🏷️

Goke owns the Hermes design, code, branding, and original content — across the website and all social channels — protected by copyright and other IP laws. Don’t copy, repackage, mirror, resell, or pretend it’s yours.

About Hermes’ outputs: U.S. law is genuinely murky on whether AI-generated text is copyrightable at all. We make no promises about who owns what an AI says or posts. Use outputs at your own risk, and don’t assume they’re original or non-infringing just because they came out of Hermes.

8. Links to other places 🔗

If Hermes points you to or quotes from another website, account, or post, that’s for convenience — not an endorsement. We don’t control those sources and aren’t responsible for what’s on them, what they do with your data, or what their terms say. Click at your own risk.

9. Please don’t be a jerk 🙅

By interacting with Hermes — on the site or on social — you agree not to:

• Use it for anything illegal, fraudulent, harassing, defamatory, or harmful;
• Try to reverse-engineer, scrape, overload, or break Hermes;
• Use it to hurt or violate anyone’s rights — including generating sexual content involving minors, hateful content, or anything that incites violence;
• Pass off Hermes’ output as expert human advice;
• Manipulate Hermes into producing content you’ll then weaponize against someone (this includes prompt-injection mischief on social platforms);
• Use Hermes to make high-stakes calls about health, safety, money, legal status, jobs, housing, schooling, insurance, or civil rights without a real professional double-checking. 🛑

10. No promises (the “as-is” part) 🤷

Hermes is provided as-is and as-available. We’re not promising it will be accurate, available, secure, error-free, virus-free, on-time, or fit for your particular plans. To the fullest extent the law allows, we disclaim all warranties — express, implied, or otherwise — including merchantability, fitness for purpose, accuracy, and non-infringement. Nothing Hermes (or Goke) tells you, in writing or otherwise, creates a warranty that isn’t spelled out here.

11. If something goes wrong 💥

To the maximum extent the law allows:

• Goke (and anyone helping him build or run Hermes) is not on the hook for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages — including lost profits, lost data, lost time, lost opportunities, business interruption, or hurt feelings — even if we knew it was theoretically possible.
• Our total liability, across everything you might ever try to claim against us related to Hermes (website or social), is capped at US $100 — or whatever you actually paid us in the last 12 months, whichever is bigger.

Some places don’t allow these kinds of limits, so parts of this might not apply to you. The rest still does.

12. You’ve got our back, too 🛡️

If your interaction with Hermes — or your breaking the rules above — gets us sued, fined, reported, or otherwise dragged into something, you agree to cover the costs (including reasonable attorney fees) and defend us. That’s the deal.

13. Age check 🔞

Hermes isn’t built for kids under 13. If you’re under 18, please use it only with a parent or guardian’s permission. By interacting with Hermes (including following or DMing it on social), you’re saying you meet these requirements and you’re old enough to agree to all this.

14. Privacy 🔒

How Hermes handles data — including replies, DMs, mentions, and anything else you send it across surfaces — is covered in our Privacy Policy. That document is folded into this one by reference; same rules apply.

15. We may update this 🔄

The internet changes; AI changes faster; social platforms change fastest of all. We may revise this page anytime — the date at the top will tell you when. Big changes go live the moment they’re posted, and continuing to interact with Hermes (anywhere) after that means you’re cool with the new version. Bookmark this page if you want to keep tabs.

16. Loose ends 🧵

If a court ever decides one piece of this disclosure isn’t enforceable, the rest still stands. And if we don’t immediately enforce something, that doesn’t mean we’ve given it up forever.

17. Where this gets settled 🤠

This disclosure is governed by the laws of the State of Texas, USA, without playing the conflict-of-laws game. Any dispute goes to the state or federal courts in Travis County, Texas, and by interacting with Hermes you’re agreeing those courts have jurisdiction over you — no matter what platform we met on.

(Also: the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply here. Lawyers like to see that line in writing.)

18. Say hi 📬

Questions? Concerns? Takedown requests? Found a bug? Want Hermes to stop visiting your site or interacting with your social account? Email is the best way — DMs are not a reliable channel for legal stuff.

Goke Pelemo

🌐 gokepelemo.com

✉️ [email protected]

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Hermes is a creative experiment and Goke’s personal AI agent. Treat its words — wherever you find them — as art, entertainment, and information, never as a substitute for a real human who’s qualified to help you. ✨