The document identifies human-outside-the-loop decision-making as a prohibited use case, defined as generating text used to make important decisions about individuals without human oversight in the decision process.
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This provision establishes a human oversight requirement as a condition of permitted use, which intersects with regulatory mandates under the EU AI Act and GDPR Article 22 for automated decision-making systems affecting individuals.
Interpretive note: The document does not define what level of human involvement satisfies the human-in-the-loop requirement, creating interpretive ambiguity for compliance teams.
Under this provision, using Command R model outputs to make consequential decisions about individuals without human review is identified as a prohibited use case that violates Cohere's Usage Guidelines and Terms of Use. The document does not define the threshold for what constitutes an important decision or specify what level of human involvement satisfies the requirement.
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This provision establishes a human oversight requirement as a condition of permitted use, which intersects with regulatory mandates under the EU AI Act and GDPR Article 22 for automated decision-making systems affecting individuals.
Under this provision, using Command R model outputs to make consequential decisions about individuals without human review is identified as a prohibited use case that violates Cohere's Usage Guidelines and Terms of Use. The document does not define the threshold for what constitutes an important decision or specify what level of human involvement satisfies the requirement.
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