You cannot use Replicate to make fully automated decisions that have significant legal or practical effects on people, such as automated credit decisions, hiring decisions, or similar profiling. You also cannot systematically scrape personally identifiable data from the platform's outputs.
This analysis describes what Replicate's agreement states, permits, or reserves. It does not constitute a legal determination about enforceability. Regulatory applicability and practical outcomes may vary by jurisdiction, enforcement context, and individual circumstances. Read our methodology
These restrictions align with regulatory requirements under the EU AI Act and GDPR around automated decision-making, but they also place the compliance burden on the customer rather than the platform. Businesses that inadvertently use Replicate for these purposes are in breach of the agreement regardless of regulatory intent.
Interpretive note: The boundary between 'fully automated' and human-assisted decision-making is not defined in the document, creating interpretive uncertainty for use cases that involve AI recommendations reviewed by a human before action is taken.
If you are an individual whose data is being processed through a third-party application built on Replicate, these restrictions are intended to prevent that application from making automated legal or significant decisions about you. However, enforcement of these restrictions is the responsibility of the business customer, not Replicate.
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"Customer shall not, and shall not permit any other Authorized User to, access or use the Services and Outputs: for purposes of or for the performance of: 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); systematic or automated scraping, mining, extraction, or harvesting of personally identifiable data, or similar activity, from the output of any part of the Services except with respect to data that end users have provided as input to the Services and which end users are legally entitled to process.Excerpt from Replicate's Terms of Service
REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: The prohibition on fully automated decision-making with legal or significant effects directly mirrors GDPR Article 22, which provides individuals with the right not to be subject to solely automated decisions with significant effects.
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These restrictions align with regulatory requirements under the EU AI Act and GDPR around automated decision-making, but they also place the compliance burden on the customer rather than the platform. Businesses that inadvertently use Replicate for these purposes are in breach of the agreement regardless of regulatory intent.
If you are an individual whose data is being processed through a third-party application built on Replicate, these restrictions are intended to prevent that application from making automated legal or significant decisions about you. However, enforcement of these restrictions is the responsibility of the business customer, not Replicate.
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