AI Disclosure
1. Where GradePath uses AI
- Private transcription: when enabled and requested, AI converts a selected private classroom recording into private transcript text.
- Source-grounded Tutor: AI answers a question using authorized excerpts and citations from material available to that user.
- Private study derivatives: AI can help structure or summarize private notes and transcripts into editable study material.
- Other AI-assisted study features: when offered, AI can process selected material for document extraction or study generation.
Raw audio, raw transcripts, and capture transcripts stay private. An AI-generated or AI-assisted derivative also starts private. Only a separate artifact that the user deliberately reviews and submits can enter the exact-course Course Commons workflow. Raw audio and transcripts cannot be contributed.
2. Providers
OpenAI is the current provider integrated for private audio transcription. OpenAI can also process Tutor or other text-generation requests through the current routing and fallback logic.
Anthropic processes Tutor and other text-generation requests through its commercial API. GradePath can route a task based on the feature, requested quality, provider configuration, availability, and fallback behavior. A feature label such as "Tutor" does not guarantee that one provider handles every request.
3. Data sent for processing
Depending on the feature you choose, GradePath may send:
- the audio file you selected for transcription, which can include your voice and instructor or classmate voices;
- your prompt, question, or instruction;
- authorized excerpts from private notes, private transcripts, imported materials, or an active Course Commons derivative;
- limited course context, source labels, citation identifiers, and prior conversation turns needed to answer;
- technical request metadata used for reliability, abuse prevention, and usage measurement.
We do not intentionally send passwords, full payment-card data, or Stripe identity, tax, or bank information to an AI provider. You should not put unnecessary sensitive personal information in a prompt, note, recording, or upload.
4. Storage, retention, and training boundary
GradePath does not train its own model on your Private Content and does not grant OpenAI or Anthropic permission to train on it. Current OpenAI text-generation requests are configured with provider storage disabled at the request level. That setting is not the same as a verified provider-wide zero-retention agreement. Provider abuse-monitoring, regional-processing, and retention behavior depends on the endpoint, account approval, contract, and configuration actually in effect.
Provider public policies can change, and processing depends on the endpoint, account agreement, and configuration in effect. GradePath's own current raw-audio retention deadline is described in the Privacy Policy. A provider request can be shorter-lived than GradePath's private transcript record.
5. AI can be wrong
Transcripts can omit words, confuse speakers, or misstate technical terms. Tutor and generated study material can be inaccurate, incomplete, outdated, biased, or supported by the wrong passage. A citation shows what source was retrieved; it does not prove that the answer or source is correct. Review transcripts and derivatives, and verify important information with your instructor and authorized course sources.
6. Rights, consent, and academic integrity
AI processing does not give you new rights in a recording, transcript, instructor material, classmate statement, or Course Commons artifact. Before recording, you must obtain all consent, notice, instructor permission, and institution permission required for that class. You remain responsible for course rules, academic integrity, plagiarism, and any restriction on AI use.
7. User choices
You can choose not to record, not to request transcription, not to ask Tutor about a source, and not to submit a derivative to Course Commons. Some AI-based features will not work without sending the selected input to an AI provider. To request deletion or ask which provider processed an issue, contact [email protected].
8. No academic guarantee
AI output is a study aid, not professional or official academic advice. GradePath does not guarantee a grade, exam result, course outcome, correct transcript, or correct answer.