AI Act Article 50(3): what Sume video inspect returns

Sume's video inspect returns probe facts, sampled stills and optional speech-to-text for one clip; its docs do not list emotion or biometric categorisation as an output. Article 50(3) of the AI Act, as the Commission FAQ explains it, applies to deployers of emotion recognition and biometric categorisation systems. This post is a plain reading of public pages, not legal advice.

Scope text is from the Commission's Article 50 FAQ; Sume facts are from Video inspect, all read 2026-10-01.

What does Article 50(3) cover?

The FAQ says deployers of emotion recognition systems and biometric categorisation systems must inform the natural persons exposed to those systems of their operation, to protect their privacy. It adds that this does not mean explaining, for example, the system's purpose, and that the obligation applies whether people are exposed in real time or the system runs after the fact.

What does video inspect return?

Video inspect reads one media.sume.com clip already owned by the workspace. Its page says inspect returns probe facts, stills and optional STT, and that it is not typed scenes: semantic questions are separate tools that appear only when listed in tools_list. It never re-encodes the source and never produces an MP4.

The page documents no emotion, expression or identity field in the result.

Does using inspect make me an Article 50(3) deployer?

The cited pages do not say, and a tool name does not settle it. Article 50(3) is about systems that recognise emotions or categorise people biometrically. If you build a feature on top of inspect output that does that, you own that design and should take advice.

If you only read duration, resolution and a transcript to prepare edits, you are using the documented outputs listed above.

What should I check in my own pipeline?

List every field you store from an inspect or frames call, and every model you run on the stills. If any step infers feelings or traits of a person, treat it as a separate system and check the FAQ text. Relevant context on preview versus final files is in closed-loop previs and the final output line.