The agreement prohibits customers from using any covered Software or any component of that Software for emotion recognition purposes, without exception or qualification.
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This provision establishes an absolute, unconditional use restriction applicable across all covered NVIDIA AI Software and its components, including NIM microservices, Omniverse, NeMo, and TAO Toolkit. The restriction has direct implications for enterprise customers deploying AI in contexts such as human-computer interaction, workforce analytics, or affective computing, where emotion recognition functionality may intersect with permitted use cases.
The agreement prohibits use of any covered Software or component for emotion recognition, meaning customers who deploy NVIDIA AI Software in applications that include or could include emotion detection functionality must ensure those use cases are technically excluded from their deployments.
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Compare across platforms →"Customer may not use the Software or any of its components for the purpose of emotion recognition.Excerpt from NVIDIA NIM's NVIDIA AI Foundation Models AUP
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision directly engages the EU AI Act, which includes restrictions and prohibitions on certain emotion recognition systems, particularly in workplace and educational contexts.
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This provision establishes an absolute, unconditional use restriction applicable across all covered NVIDIA AI Software and its components, including NIM microservices, Omniverse, NeMo, and TAO Toolkit. The restriction has direct implications for enterprise customers deploying AI in contexts such as human-computer interaction, workforce analytics, or affective computing, where emotion recognition functionality may intersect with permitted use cases.
The agreement prohibits use of any covered Software or component for emotion recognition, meaning customers who deploy NVIDIA AI Software in applications that include or could include emotion detection functionality must ensure those use cases are technically excluded from their deployments.
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