The agreement prohibits Associates and any third parties acting on their behalf from using Special Links or Program Content to train machine learning models or develop related technology, unless Amazon provides prior written approval.
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This provision extends the program's use restrictions to cover AI and machine learning applications, requiring Associates to obtain written approval before incorporating Special Links or Program Content into any model training pipeline, content aggregation system, or AI-adjacent workflow. This restriction applies to third parties as well as the Associate directly.
Interpretive note: The phrase 'related technology' is undefined in the document, creating ambiguity about whether AI-adjacent tools that incidentally process program content fall within the prohibition.
This clause prohibits Associates from using Amazon's Special Links or Program Content as training data or inputs for machine learning systems without prior written approval from Amazon. Associates using automated content tools, recommendation engines, or AI-assisted publishing workflows that ingest program content should evaluate whether those workflows implicate this restriction.
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Compare across platforms →"You will not, without or express prior written approval, use, or allow any third party to use, any Special Links or Program Content to develop machine learning models or related technology.Excerpt from Amazon Associates's Program Policies
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision does not directly engage consumer protection regulations but intersects with emerging AI governance frameworks including the EU AI Act, which imposes transparency and data provenance obligations on certain AI system …
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This provision extends the program's use restrictions to cover AI and machine learning applications, requiring Associates to obtain written approval before incorporating Special Links or Program Content into any model training pipeline, content aggregation system, or AI-adjacent workflow. This restriction applies to third parties as well as the Associate directly.
This clause prohibits Associates from using Amazon's Special Links or Program Content as training data or inputs for machine learning systems without prior written approval from Amazon. Associates using automated content tools, recommendation engines, or AI-assisted publishing workflows that ingest program content should evaluate whether those workflows implicate this restriction.
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