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Cohere mandates AI disclosure for public-facing interactive applications, ensuring end users are not deceived about the nature of the system they are engaging with.
Interpretive note: The excerpt is item (1) of a numbered list under a conditional requirement. Additional obligations for public-facing AI applications likely follow in unquoted portions of the clause.
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View change record →Readers who operate public-facing Customer Applications that interact with humans are required to disclose the AI nature of those interactions to users.
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Cohere mandates AI disclosure for public-facing interactive applications, ensuring end users are not deceived about the nature of the system they are engaging with.
Readers who operate public-facing Customer Applications that interact with humans are required to disclose the AI nature of those interactions to users.
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