Beyond standard approval, developers building applications in healthcare, legal advice, products for minors, or systems that make important automated decisions about people must go through a separate, elevated review process before deploying.
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This provision creates a distinct compliance tier for applications with elevated risk of harm, meaning developers in these categories cannot proceed based on standard approval alone and must proactively initiate a special review with Cohere.
Interpretive note: The specific procedural steps and criteria for special approval are not detailed in the document, creating uncertainty about what constitutes sufficient compliance with this requirement.
The updated policy removes all substantive acceptable use requirements that were previously posted and enforceable. Users no longer have a referenced standard defining what conduct is prohibited on the platform. The removal of enforcement procedures means users cannot verify what conduct may trigger access restriction, suspension, or termination. The elimination of the child safety and sexually explicit content prohibitions from the posted policy creates uncertainty about whether these protections remain in effect through other terms or have been abandoned.
View change record →Individuals who interact with Cohere-powered health, legal, or automated decision-making applications benefit from this provision's requirement that such applications receive heightened scrutiny before deployment; minors are specifically identified as a protected group requiring additional safeguards.
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"Developers must outline and get approval for their use case to access the Cohere API. Certain use cases require special approval, such as medical or health-related applications, legal advice, applications targeting or used by minors, and high-stakes automated decision-making affecting individuals.Excerpt from Cohere's Usage Policy
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This provision creates a distinct compliance tier for applications with elevated risk of harm, meaning developers in these categories cannot proceed based on standard approval alone and must proactively initiate a special review with Cohere.
Individuals who interact with Cohere-powered health, legal, or automated decision-making applications benefit from this provision's requirement that such applications receive heightened scrutiny before deployment; minors are specifically identified as a protected group requiring additional safeguards.
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