Any distributor, importer, deployer or other third-party shall be considered to be a provider of a high-risk AI system for the purposes of this Regulation and shall be subject to the obligations of the provider under Article 16, in any of the following circumstances: (a) they put their name or trademark on a high-risk AI system already placed on the market or put into service, without prejudice to contractual arrangements stipulating that the obligations are otherwise allocated; (b) they make a substantial modification to a high-risk AI system that has already been placed on the market or has already been put into service in such a way that it remains a high-risk AI system pursuant to Article 6; (c) they modify the intended purpose of an AI system, including a general-purpose AI system, which has not been classified as high-risk and has already been placed on the market or put into service in such a way that the AI system concerned becomes a high-risk AI system in accordance with Article 6.
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When a user becomes a provider
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Under the EU AI Act, a deployer, distributor, importer or other third party is treated as the provider of a high-risk AI system, and carries the provider's obligations under Article 16, if it puts its own name or trademark on a high-risk system already on the market, makes a substantial modification to such a system that leaves it high-risk, or modifies the intended purpose of a system that was not high-risk in a way that makes it high-risk.
At a glance
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Who can become the provider
- A deployer, distributor, importer or other third party
It is treated as the provider, with the obligations of Article 16, if it
- puts its own name or trademark on a high-risk system already on the market
- makes a substantial modification to such a system that leaves it high-risk
- modifies the intended purpose of a system that was not high-risk in a way that makes it high-risk
Where the book relies on it
- The AI Act File, The day you stop being a user. About The AI Act File
- Kind of evidence
- documentarySettled by a first-hand source, quoted below with the day it was read.
The evidence
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