If anyone sues Cohere because of something you did with their services — including using their AI in a way that harms a third party — you are legally required to pay Cohere's legal costs and any damages.
You are personally or organizationally liable to defend and pay Cohere's legal costs if your use of their AI services — including AI outputs that turn out to be wrong or harmful — leads to any third-party claim against Cohere.
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Compare across platforms →This indemnification is unusually broad: if your use of Cohere's AI outputs causes harm to a third party (including harms caused by AI errors you could not control), you are contractually responsible for defending Cohere and paying any resulting costs.
(1) REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: Broad indemnification clauses are governed by contract law in the applicable jurisdiction. In the context of AI-generated outputs, this clause interacts with the EU AI Act's operator liability framework, which allocates responsibility between AI providers and deployers. If Cohere is the provider and the enterprise is the deployer under the EU AI Act, the indemnification clause attempts to shift liability back to the deployer beyond what the Act contemplates. FTC Act Section 5 may be implicated if such clauses are applied to individual consumers in consumer-facing contexts. (2)
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