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GPAI requests

Request the information under Art. 53 from the vendors of the underlying models and document the process.

Why these requests?

Anyone deploying a general-purpose AI model — GPT, Claude, Gemini or an open model — relies on information only the vendor holds: technical documentation, a training-data summary, a copyright policy. Art. 53 obliges the vendor to make these available.

What counts for you is the documented process. Reguly keeps one request per vendor and product, with status, date sent and reply. If the information is withheld as a trade secret, that too is a result — it documents that you asked, and becomes the basis for your own risk assessment.

When do I send a request?

  • After the inventory entry. Vendor and product are already there; the request picks them up.
  • On a model change. A new model version may have different training data. The old answer does not cover it.
  • When an audit is coming. The requests with status and date are the evidence that you exercised your duty of care.

Step by step

  1. 1

    Create the request

    Vendor, product and recipient address. Without an address it stays a draft.

  2. 2

    Check the text

    Reguly drafts the request under Art. 53. The text can be adjusted before it goes out.

  3. 3

    Send and follow up

    The status switches to “sent”. If no answer comes, a reminder can be scheduled.

  4. 4

    Record the answer

    Answered, declined or expired. For a refusal the reason belongs in the note — it carries your own assessment.

A refusal is not a failure

Vendors regularly withhold information citing trade secrets. What matters is that the request was demonstrably made and that you derived your own assessment from it. Reguly records both.

Common questions

Do I need one request per system or per vendor?
Per vendor and product. If you use the same model in three systems, one request covers all three.
Does Reguly send the email itself?
Reguly prepares it in full and logs the process. Sending stays your action — so it remains traceable who declared what and when.

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