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This prohibition limits use cases involving automated determinations about people — such as credit scoring or employment screening — that carry significant real-world consequences.
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The reader cannot use the Services for any fully automated decision-making, including profiling, where the output produces legal effects or similarly significant effects on individuals or groups.
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"fully automated decision-making, including profiling, with respect to an individual or group of individuals which produces legal effects concerning such individual(s) or similarly significantly affects such individual(s)Excerpt from Replicate's Terms of Service
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This prohibition limits use cases involving automated determinations about people — such as credit scoring or employment screening — that carry significant real-world consequences.
The reader cannot use the Services for any fully automated decision-making, including profiling, where the output produces legal effects or similarly significant effects on individuals or groups.
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