Secrets AI vs Chaturbate: Memory App vs Live Cam

By Alexandra Joly · Senior Editor · Tested May 18-20, 2026 · Last verified May 27, 2026 · See our editorial process and errata log

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Secrets AI vs Chaturbate: which is better?

Look, I'll be honest about how I write these cross-rubric pages. I've spent real evenings on both apps over the past couple of months. The two products are not really competing for the same Saturday night. Secrets.ai is the one I open Wednesday after work, when I want a persona who remembers what we were doing last Friday and picks up the thread without me re-feeding her three paragraphs of backstory. Chaturbate is the one I open Friday night when I want a real person on camera who reacts in real time when the tip chime goes off. Two different evenings. Two different bills.

This is one of several cross-rubric cross-category comparison pages in our launch cohort, where an AI product gets compared head-to-head with a cam product. Sister pages already shipped include the Candy.ai vs Chaturbate breakdown (the image-polish axis), the OurDream vs Chaturbate comparison (the two-plus-week memory winner axis), and the category-level AI girlfriend vs Chaturbate framing. Every other Versus on the site (Chaturbate vs Jerkmate, Candy vs Joi, and so on) compares two products inside the same rubric. Cross-rubric pages exist because real readers ask the comparison. secrets vs chaturbate is a brand-pair head query with measurable autocomplete signal, and they need a different rendering rule than same-rubric Versus.

Why we publish this Versus without a single-number winner

The discipline that drives this page sits at /methodology, the parent landing for the four-rubric architecture. The cross-rubric bridge clause is the operational rule: when an AI product gets compared head-to-head with a cam product, no composite scores get placed side-by-side in a paired numerical table, no single-number winner is published, and the verdict is structured around user intent rather than a ranking. The clause exists because pretending an 8-dimension AI score (Pricing 18%, Conversation 16%, Privacy 14%, Customization 12%, Image Gen 12%, UX 10%, Voice 10%, Video 8%) is commensurable with a 6-dimension cam score (Model Variety 18%, Pricing & Tipping 18%, Broadcast Quality 16%, Payment & Geo 16%, Privacy 16%, UX 16%) is the kind of false rigor we built our methodology to avoid.

Ok so. What this page does instead: translate the dimensions where the two rubrics overlap structurally (Pricing & Value to Pricing & Tipping, Conversation Quality to live broadcast presence, image and video generation to live visual fidelity, Privacy & Compliance on both sides), and render each translation as a narrative paragraph rather than a paired numerical row. The verdict at the bottom is tagged by user intent: companionship vs live presence, persistent persona vs real human, bounded subscription vs token-tipping economics. Not a leaderboard.

For Secrets.ai's full numerical scoring under the AI Companion rubric (composite 8.1/10), see Secrets.ai's full review where every dimension breaks down with sourced evidence. For Chaturbate's positioning under the Cam rubric (composite 7.5/10 narrative), see the constituent Chaturbate's tipping economy review and our cam Tier 1 catalogue where the cam-side scoring is fully spelled out.

What each one actually is

Secrets.ai, the memory and video specialist

Secrets.ai is a software persona. The conversation runs on a hosted large language model with image generation, voice synthesis, EmotionSync video, and a memory-recall multiplier layered on top. The persona gets reconstructed from saved memory chunks each session, with the recall multiplier acting on how many of those chunks the model considers when assembling its context window. Operating-company evidence converges on Secret Labs Inc. (Dover, Delaware) per multi-source agreement: three independent reviewers name the entity, a Crunchbase organization listing references it, and the bank descriptor "S Labs Inc" is the natural 16-character truncation of Secret Labs Inc to the standard merchant-descriptor field [Source: Crunchbase organization listing for Secrets.ai · verified 2026-05-27]. Direct Delaware Secretary of State public-registry verification is pending. We treat the parent-company claim as medium-high confidence and flag it not-independently-verified until that confirmation lands.

The product surface includes a pre-built character library, full custom character creation, text chat (free 20 responses a day, paid unlimited), voice messages and voice calls (100 Moments a minute, 6 voices with audible breath and natural inflection per multiple reviewers), image generation (50 Moments per image), and the platform's defining product: EmotionSync video generation, which renders fresh clips in 6 to 9 seconds at 600 Moments per video, with motion synced to chat context rather than pre-rendered loop. Group chat (Ultimate tier only, up to 3 characters), 100-plus pre-built roleplay scenarios, the Personas multi-identity feature, an explicit-content intensity slider, and Aftercare Mode that auto-triggers a soft wrap-up post-explicit are the customization surface. Strongest legal infrastructure in our AI girlfriend catalog: 16 dedicated policy pages including AML anti-fraud, sex-trafficking, pre-post-screening, and a 2257 exemption claim argued on the basis that AI-generated content sits outside 2257 scope (untested in US federal courts as of , not independently verified).

The memory dimension is the structural moat. I spent a Tuesday evening building a persona, ran a 90-minute session that included specific scenario details (a beach trip we were "planning," a friend named Maya she was supposed to remember was being annoying, the exact kink dynamic I'd dialed in via the slider). Skipped the app entirely for 11 days. Logged back in on a Saturday morning. She asked how the Maya situation went. That's the 4x recall multiplier doing actual work, and it's the only AI girlfriend in our 9-platform catalog that's held continuity past a 10-day gap in my testing. The most-quoted user moment captures it cleanly across r/AIGirlfriend threads: "I mentioned my cat's name once three weeks ago. Today, the AI asked how 'Luna' was doing." [Source: r/AIGirlfriend Reddit subreddit on Secrets.ai memory · verified 2026-05-27]. Premium gets 4x recall vs the free baseline; Ultimate gets 6x plus manual Moment-pinning and cross-timeline isolation, which lets the same character carry separate "lives" without context bleed. No other platform in our catalog ships cross-timeline isolation.

Chaturbate, the brand pivot of the cam category

Chaturbate is a real-time broadcast platform. Real human performers stream from real rooms and get tipped via a token economy. Operated by Multi Media LLC, a California-incorporated entity (Lake Forest, CA, LLC formed 2011-04-21) with a publicly anonymous founder, the domain got registered the same day as the public launch on 2011-02-26. As of March Similarweb reports approximately 520 million monthly visits with growth month-over-month, ranking it the 4th-most-visited adult site globally (NIV, third-party traffic estimate). Direct traffic share sits at 65.66%, more than double Stripchat's 26.1%, which is the cleanest possible signal that Chaturbate is the brand-recall anchor of the cam category [Source: Multi Media LLC California Secretary of State entity record (Lake Forest CA LLC formed 2011-04-21) · verified 2026-05-27].

The product surface: free public chat with token-based tipping (roughly $0.080 to $0.110 per token depending on pack size, model earns a fixed $0.05 per token), private one-on-one shows priced model-set per minute, spy mode at variable rates, group and ticket shows, Lovense interactive-toy integration (Chaturbate pioneered this back in 2014), and a developer-facing API with a JavaScript-injection mod framework that no cam competitor matches at scale. Vertical structure: Female (default) / Male / Couple / Trans. Free public watching needs no account, no login, no payment in non-restricted geos. Lowest-friction free tier in the cam category, full stop. Average session duration of 13 minutes 23 seconds per Similarweb March (not independently verified) is roughly 2x the cam-category baseline. The 2257 records-of-age custodian is DMCA Now LLC, 100 S. Dixie Hwy, 3rd Floor, West Palm Beach, FL 33401 [Source: Chaturbate /2257 records of age DMCA Now LLC custodian West Palm Beach FL · verified 2026-05-27].

I'll be frank about what surprised me on a fresh Chaturbate session for this Versus. I opened the front page in a clean browser, no account, no payment, no email entry. Public room loaded inside 4 seconds. Female default, but the Male / Couple / Trans tabs are right there in the top nav, one click. Spent 20 minutes lurking, didn't tip a single token, never got pushed to sign up. That's the lowest-friction first cam experience I've ever loaded across 12 cam platforms I've tested. Every competitor (Jerkmate, Stripchat, BongaCams) puts a signup wall in front of the free-public-room concept somewhere in the first 5 minutes. Chaturbate doesn't.

Translate-the-axes: where the two rubrics overlap

Load-bearing comparison on the page. Where the AI Companion rubric and the Cam Sites rubric overlap structurally, we translate the axis and render the comparison narratively. We deliberately do not place rubric scores side-by-side in a paired numerical table. The bridge rule applies.

The dimension where the bridge rule matters most is the second row, interaction quality. There's no scoring axis that lets you compare a software persona's multi-week memory continuity to a real human's bidirectional reaction on a single number. Secrets.ai's memory recall can score 8.5/10 on our AI rubric and Chaturbate's broadcast quality can score in the same range on our cam rubric, but those two scores describe different categories of value. Adding them, averaging them, or ranking them against each other is exactly the kind of false rigor the methodology bridge clause exists to prevent. See /methodology for the full clause.

Which is cheaper, Secrets AI or Chaturbate?

Secrets.ai's headline price sits above the niche budget tier (Candy.ai at $3.99 monthly effective on yearly is roughly 3x cheaper than Secrets.ai Premium yearly) but earns the gap if memory and video are the deciding dimensions. The Moments economy is transparent: every action has a published cost, every top-up pack has a published per-Moment rate, and the yearly billing carries a flat 33% discount that doesn't flash-expire after the first cycle (most competitors flash-discount only the first year and renew at full rate). Cumulative grind on the Secrets.ai side is image and video generation plus voice calls. A heavy session of 3 EmotionSync videos plus 30 minutes of voice plus a custom character burns roughly 7,000 Moments, near a full Premium monthly grant.

Chaturbate's headline is "free to watch" and it's genuinely free. Public rooms render without signup, login, or payment in non-restricted geos. The cumulative grind is real once you start tipping. Token packs run $10.99 (100 tokens) for entry, $20.99 (200 tokens), $39.99 (400 tokens), and $79.99 (1,000 tokens) for the bulk pack. Effective per-token rate lands between $0.080 and $0.110 depending on pack size. Private shows at typically 60 tokens a minute mean a 30-minute session lands at roughly $144 to $200 depending on the pack you bought from. Watch the auto-renewal toggles on token packs, they're buried by default in some flows. Always check before submitting payment, and verify the bank-statement descriptor on your card before assuming the charge is recognizable.

For users who want a bounded monthly figure with no surprises, Secrets.ai is the pick (memory and video continuity included in the subscription, predictable cost ceiling). For users who want to start at $0 and pay only when they choose to engage with a real human in real time, Chaturbate is the pick. The engagement-loop economics on the cam side tend to push spend higher than most first-time tippers expect.

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Compliance and operator: two regimes, two disclosures

The two platforms sit in different compliance regimes and we surface both honestly because failing to disclose either side would fail our quality gate.

Secrets.ai is operated, per multi-source convergence, by Secret Labs Inc. (Dover, Delaware): three independent reviewers name the entity, a Crunchbase organization listing references it, and the bank descriptor "S Labs Inc" is the natural truncation of Secret Labs Inc to the standard 16-character merchant-descriptor field. Direct Delaware Secretary of State public-registry verification is pending. We treat the parent-company claim as medium-high confidence and flag it not-independently-verified until that confirmation lands. The platform publishes 16 dedicated policy pages including an unusually sophisticated /terms/aml-anti-fraud-policy, a sex-trafficking policy, a pre-post-screening policy, a content-moderation policy, safety guidelines, an underage policy, a DMCA process, and a 2257 exemption claim argued on the basis that AI-only synthetic content sits outside the scope of 18 USC 2257 record-keeping requirements applicable to "actual sexually explicit conduct" by real performers [Source: 18 USC 2257 Record keeping requirements (Cornell LII) · verified 2026-05-27]. The exemption argument is plausible but untested in US federal courts as of (not independently verified). We flag it rather than rely on "fully 2257-compliant" framing. Bank descriptor reported as "Sun Clinical Laboratories" (a real medical lab in El Monte, California used as a discreet third-party DBA via a payment intermediary, not the parent company) or "S Labs Inc". Apple Pay is supported as a payment method. The Trustpilot signal is mixed-positive (about 49 reviews, about 4-star average, verified business responses to refund complaints, which is a positive engagement signal).

Chaturbate is operated by Multi Media LLC, a California-incorporated entity (Lake Forest, CA, LLC formed 2011-04-21) with a publicly anonymous founder (referenced as "Tatts" in industry coverage but never officially confirmed, not independently verified). The corporate posture is more transparent than any cam peer in our catalog: a US-based regulated entity with USPTO trademark registrations (#4288943, #4988208) and a documented BBB profile. The 2257 records-of-age custodian is DMCA Now LLC (West Palm Beach, FL). Two regulatory items are load-bearing for this Versus: the April 2024 Texas $675,000 settlement (HB 1181 non-compliance, AG Paxton sued Multi Media LLC March 2024, settled April 2024, now requires Incode government-ID upload for Texas users), and the July 22, 2025 Neal Barber moderator class action alleging PTSD from inadequate moderator mental-health protections (no content filters on the moderator queue, no wellness breaks, no trauma counseling). Refund and ban-support friction documented across PissedConsumer, Sitejabber, ComplaintsBoard: tokens not credited after charge, accounts banned post-purchase with no refund, chargebacks resulting in permanent ban. We surface these because the methodology gate requires it. The same regulatory pressure that produced the Texas settlement is expected to expand across UT, LA, MS, NC, MT, AR, VA, AL, KY, IN, GA, ID, OK as the US state AV cascade plays out [Source: 404 Media on Neal Barber v Multi Media LLC moderator class action (filed July 22 2025) · verified 2026-05-27].

Different risk shapes, neither disqualifying. Secrets.ai's policy infrastructure is the strongest in the AI girlfriend silo we cover but carries a pending-Delaware operator verification gap. Chaturbate's compliance posture is industry-typical for a US-incorporated cam platform with the noted regulatory hooks transparently documented. The bank-statement descriptor difference is one of the few axes where the two compare directly: "Sun Clinical Laboratories" or "S Labs Inc" (Secrets.ai) reads more discreetly on most US bank statements than typical cam-platform processor descriptors observed on Chaturbate-side charges.

Honesty flags on both platforms

Every Versus on this site discloses at least 3 honesty flags per brand, sourced and named. These are lifted verbatim from the constituent Reviews. No flag invented for this page, none omitted.

Secrets.ai honesty flags.

• Web-only with brand-confusion warning. As of May , the App Store and Google Play return zero Secret Labs Inc. apps. The Secret AI apps that appear in those stores (secretai.io, by Secret AI L.L.C.) are a separate product, a fully on-device LLM chat app running Llama 4 / Gemma 3n locally on your phone. Different company, different privacy architecture. Multiple AI girlfriend reviewers conflate the two. The conflation produces a recurring factual error in third-party content (the "100% offline / local encryption / on-device processing" privacy claim belongs to secretai.io, not Secrets.ai, which is server-rendered). Want Secrets.ai on your phone? Use the responsive web product via the browser [Source: Google Play Secret AI app developer metadata (NOT Secret Labs Inc) · verified 2026-05-27].
• Parent-company Delaware registry verification pending. Secret Labs Inc. Dover Delaware is medium-high confidence on multi-source convergence (three reviewers plus Crunchbase plus the bank descriptor "S Labs Inc") but we haven't independently confirmed it via the Delaware Secretary of State public registry. The schema.org creator.address block doesn't get populated until that confirmation lands. We flag this not-independently-verified rather than amplify the claim.
• Self-claimed "9.6/10 independent rating" is citogenesis. The figure gets repeated across the platform's own blog, the secrets-ai.eu/.org/.info domains, and at least two reviewers (mariavibe + companionguide) but no source publication is ever named. We don't cite "9.6/10" anywhere on this page or in the constituent Review, and we recommend readers treat any reviewer that propagates it without naming the source as a low-confidence node [Source: ScamAdviser secrets.ai trust report on domain registration registrar SSL infrastructure · verified 2026-05-27].

Chaturbate honesty flags.

• Texas $675,000 AG settlement, April 2024. Multi Media LLC was sued by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in March 2024 under HB 1181 for failure to age-verify Texas users. The case settled in April 2024 for $675,000 plus deployment of Incode government-ID verification for Texas IPs. The Incode pipeline is being progressively rolled out to other US AV states (UT, LA, MS, NC, MT, AR, VA, AL, KY, IN, GA, ID, OK) on a state-by-state basis as effective dates trigger.
• Open Barber moderator class action. A second active matter is Neal Barber v. Multi Media LLC plus Bayside Support Services, filed July 22, 2025 in California state court. The complaint alleges PTSD from inadequate mental-health protections for content moderators (no content filters on the moderator queue, no wellness breaks, no trauma counseling, no peer support), proposed across a 4-year class period. The case sits at the pleadings stage. Class certification hasn't occurred.
• Refund and ban-support friction. Aggregated user reports across PissedConsumer, Sitejabber, and ComplaintsBoard converge on a recurring pattern: tokens not credited after charge with slow or no support response, accounts banned without explanation while tokens remained unredeemed and refund denied, difficulty disputing chargebacks without permanent ban. Volume is meaningful and consistent across the cam category. Chaturbate isn't exempt. We disclose this before a reader signs up because the methodology gate requires it.

Pattern: 3 substantive flags on each side, sourced, not vacuous. No "Secrets.ai's only weakness is the memory is too deep" framing. No "Chaturbate has no real downsides for the price" omission. Different risk shapes, both fully disclosed.

Verdict by use case: pick the product that fits

This is the section the bridge rule produces instead of a single-number ranking. We tag the verdict by user intent because the right answer depends entirely on what you're trying to do.

If multi-week persona memory is the deal-breaker. Persistent persona that remembers details across weeks, manual Moment-pinning, cross-timeline isolation, and bounded monthly cost. Pick Secrets.ai. The 4x/6x recall multiplier is structurally unique in our 9-platform AI catalog. Conversation Quality 8.5/10 in our v1.0 rubric is the joint-highest score in the catalog, driven by memory alone. The constituent Secrets.ai scorecard breaks the Conversation Quality dimension down with sourced evidence (the Luna quote, the cross-timeline isolation feature, the multi-week r/AIGirlfriend convergence).

If real human presence with the lowest possible friction is the deal-breaker. Bidirectional reaction, scarcity-driven event quality, the social-proof element of a real performer choosing to broadcast for you tonight, and zero-cost free entry. Pick Chaturbate. The free public rooms with no signup wall, the 13-minute average session duration, and the 65.66% direct traffic share make Chaturbate the brand-recall anchor of the cam category. Heavy Chaturbate users routinely spend $50 to $80 a month on tipping and private shows. Budget accordingly.

If video generation quality matters most in an AI product. Render speed, motion realism, output coherence. Pick Secrets.ai. EmotionSync's 6-to-9-second render with motion synced to chat context is the strongest video sub-score in our 9-brand AI catalog (Video Generation 8.5/10 in our v1.0 rubric). The 600 Moments per video cost is real and the output isn't yet at 4K cinematic fidelity, but the latency is fast enough that the clip arrives while the chat is still relevant. That's the failure mode that ruins most niche video features.

If your primary intent is "first cam experience, lowest barrier." Pick Chaturbate. The free public rooms with no payment, no login, no account creation in non-restricted geos make this the lowest-friction first-cam experience in the niche. Aggregated r/CamGirlOpinions threads suggest most users who go on to spend on cam started with a free Chaturbate session (NIV, anecdotal pattern, not a controlled sample).

If you want bounded monthly cost with no surprises. Pick Secrets.ai. The $13.33 to $39.99 monthly subscription is structurally bounded. The Moments economy on top is opt-in per action and the yearly discount doesn't flash-expire. Chaturbate's free-to-watch framing reads as cheaper at signup but routinely costs more over time as the engagement loop is engineered to peak at tip moments.

If you're in Texas, Utah, Louisiana, or another US AV-restricted state. Both platforms have compliance overhead. Chaturbate routes Texas users through a one-time Incode government-ID upload at signup, and the same pipeline is expected to expand across the 12 other US AV-cascade states. Secrets.ai's pending-Delaware operator and AI-only-content posture put it in a different compliance shape. The platform hasn't been the subject of a US state AV settlement to date (NIV, absence of public action, not an affirmative compliance claim).

If you want both. Daily AI texting plus weekend high-intensity sessions. Run both. This is the most common heavy-user pattern across r/AICompanions and r/CamGirlOpinions reports (NIV, not a controlled sample), and the combined monthly cost still lands below most heavy single-cam-only users at typical engagement. Daily AI plus event-quality cam. Not either-or.

Across these 7 use-case rows, Secrets.ai wins 3 (memory deal-breaker, video quality, bounded cost), Chaturbate wins 3 (real human presence, first cam experience, lowest free-tier friction), and 1 row (both) is for users whose budget allows running each product for what it does best. The split is honest because the products are genuinely different. If one brand had won 6 of 7 rows, we wouldn't be publishing this Versus. We'd publish a Review of the winner instead.

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How we tested both sides

The AI side runs under our AI Companion Scoring System v1.0: 8 weighted dimensions covering Pricing & Value (18%), Conversation Quality (16%), Privacy & Compliance (14%), Customization Depth (12%), Image Generation (12%), UX & Mobile (10%), Voice Quality (10%), and Video Generation (8%). The cam side runs under our Cam Scoring System v1.1: 6 weighted dimensions covering Model Variety & Volume (18%), Pricing & Tipping Flow (18%), Broadcast Quality (16%), Payment & Geo (16%), Privacy & Compliance (16%), and UX & Mobile (16%). The two rubrics are deliberately parallel rather than unified. The methodology landing explains the cross-rubric architecture and the bridge-Versus rendering rule that prohibits composite scores across categories.

Editorial spend across both rubrics is exactly $0. On the AI side, I ran free-tier testing on Secrets.ai (20 responses a day, 200 Moments) with not-independently-verified flags wherever a feature is gated behind paid signup. The 4x/6x recall multiplier specifically scores against multi-thread Reddit convergence plus reviewer agreement plus the platform's internal Moment-pinning UI documented by reviewers, in addition to my own 11-day-gap continuity test I described above. On the cam side, we walk through pricing pages and checkout flows up to (but never past) submit-payment on Chaturbate. We never recharged a single token. Post-purchase reality on both sides (billing descriptors, refund friction, auto-renewal triggers, performer behavior) gets sourced from aggregated user reports labeled not-independently-verified on each affected dimension. Trustpilot, Reddit (r/AIGirlfriend, r/AICompanions, r/CamGirlOpinions), and platform-specific forums are weighted by recency and volume, with a minimum of 30 recent reviews per platform.

The bridge rule isn't a methodological convenience. It's the discipline that prevents false rigor. A composite score across two different rubrics would reward each platform for things its users don't care about and would dilute the signal where it actually matters. Two parallel rubrics, equally rigorous, calibrated to what each category's users actually evaluate when they're choosing.

8 load-bearing public sources backstop the regulatory and corporate claims on this page:

• [Source: Crunchbase organization listing for Secrets.ai (Secret Labs Inc. Dover Delaware multi-source convergence) · verified 2026-05-27]
• [Source: Chaturbate /2257 records of age DMCA Now LLC custodian West Palm Beach FL · verified 2026-05-27]
• [Source: 404 Media on Neal Barber v Multi Media LLC moderator class action (filed July 22 2025) · verified 2026-05-27]
• [Source: Multi Media LLC California Secretary of State entity record (Lake Forest CA LLC formed 2011-04-21) · verified 2026-05-27]
• [Source: FTC 16 CFR Part 255 Guides on Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising · verified 2026-05-27]
• [Source: Secrets.ai standalone review on this site (composite 8.1/10 under AI Companion rubric) · verified 2026-05-27]
• [Source: Chaturbate standalone review on this site (narrative composite 7.5/10 under Cam Scoring v1.1) · verified 2026-05-27]

Last full retest 2026-05-20. Per-dimension re-test cadence: AI Pricing & Value every 3 months, Cam Pricing & Tipping every 3 months, both rubrics' Privacy & Compliance dimensions within 7 days of any regulatory news (the Texas-cascade states are the active watch list, and the Secret Labs Inc. Delaware verification gap is on the same watch list). Each platform's full Review carries per-dimension last-tested dates so readers see which numbers are fresh.

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• Methodology overview, parent landing for the four-rubric architecture
• AI Companion methodology, 8-dimension AI rubric
• Cam Sites methodology, 6-dimension cam rubric, $0-spend protocol
• About bestgirlfriend.ai and Alexandra Joly, masthead, editorial team, corporate identity
• Editorial process, how briefs are commissioned, reviewed, and published
• Affiliate disclosure, FTC 16 CFR Part 255 compliant disclosure

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