“Customer is solely responsible for evaluating whether their specific use of the Services may constitute a high-risk use under the EU AI Act, and for complying with any resulting requirements applicable to Customer.”
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DeepL places the entire EU AI Act high-risk classification and compliance burden on the customer, with no shared responsibility for that assessment or its consequences.
The updated terms explicitly state that audio files are now included in the definition of 'Content' and that all Content is processed by DeepL's machine learning infrastructure. This formalizes what may have been implicit practice and clarifies the scope of data subject to machine learning processing. The terms also introduce a new access method through third-party AI assistant applications via DeepL's Model Context Protocol endpoint; usage through this pathway counts toward your subscription's usage limits and volumes. You can review the Service Specification for details on how third-party application access operates.
View change record →The customer must independently conduct the EU AI Act high-risk evaluation and fulfill any resulting legal obligations without reliance on DeepL for that determination.
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"Customer is solely responsible for evaluating whether their specific use of the Services may constitute a high-risk use under the EU AI Act, and for complying with any resulting requirements applicable to Customer.Excerpt from DeepL's Terms and Conditions
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DeepL places the entire EU AI Act high-risk classification and compliance burden on the customer, with no shared responsibility for that assessment or its consequences.
The customer must independently conduct the EU AI Act high-risk evaluation and fulfill any resulting legal obligations without reliance on DeepL for that determination.
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