This provision prohibits customers and their users from using Vercel's AI Services for a defined list of purposes, including building competing AI models, electoral campaign content, EU AI Act high-risk applications, facial recognition database development, biometric inference, and misrepresenting AI-generated output as human-generated.
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This provision establishes a broad set of contractual restrictions on AI Services use that directly intersect with multiple regulatory frameworks, including the EU AI Act, biometric data laws, and electoral integrity regulations. The customer is responsible for ensuring their end users also comply, creating a flow-down obligation that requires operational controls beyond the customer's own conduct.
Interpretive note: The EU AI Act high-risk prohibition is defined by reference to the external regulation rather than enumerated in this document, creating interpretive uncertainty as to which specific use cases are covered.
The agreement requires customers to prevent their users from engaging in any of the listed AI Services prohibited uses, including electoral content creation, facial recognition development, and biometric inference. Under these terms, customers bear contractual responsibility for third-party and end-user conduct on their platforms that uses Vercel AI Services.
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Compare across platforms →"Customers may not use AI Services, nor allow their users or any third party to use AI Services for the following: Build substantially similar functionality, competing products, or training competing AI models (e.g., create synthetic training); Model extraction or stealing attacks; Buy, sell or transfer Vercel's third-party AI providers' API keys from, to or with a third party; Circumvent any protective measures or safety mitigations within or related to the AI Services; Remove any metadata, digital signatures, or watermarks to identify AI-generated content; Extract data through any method, such as web scraping or web harvesting, from the AI Services or any underlying third-party AI providers' models, algorithms or systems, unless permitted by us; Create, send, upload, display, store, process, or transmit content that is, or is intended to be, disseminated in electoral campaigns; Represent that output is human-generated without reliance on AI; Any "high risk" areas under the EU AI Act; Develop or advance facial recognition databases; Make inferences about personal characteristics of a real person based on biometric data.Excerpt from Vercel AI's Acceptable Use Policy
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision directly references the EU AI Act (high-risk applications), implicating the European AI Office and national market surveillance authorities as enforcement bodies.
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This provision establishes a broad set of contractual restrictions on AI Services use that directly intersect with multiple regulatory frameworks, including the EU AI Act, biometric data laws, and electoral integrity regulations. The customer is responsible for ensuring their end users also comply, creating a flow-down obligation that requires operational controls beyond the customer's own conduct.
The agreement requires customers to prevent their users from engaging in any of the listed AI Services prohibited uses, including electoral content creation, facial recognition development, and biometric inference. Under these terms, customers bear contractual responsibility for third-party and end-user conduct on their platforms that uses Vercel AI Services.
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