Guidelines and Policies
Best Practices
- Be aware that GenAI may hallucinate (give false or misleading information presented as fact).
- Review the output for accuracy and bias.
- GenAI is a tool to augment your work and not to replace it.
- GenAI should not be used to make decisions that should made by humans.
- Examine and understand ethical issues.
- Before inputting any personal data, ensure that your use complies with the law and ¶«¾©ÈÈ policies.
Faculty and Staff
Do not input HIPAA data or data classified as restricted use. Please add a statement to your syllabi clearly articulating acceptable and unacceptable uses of GenAI in your course and advise students to review this during the first week of the course.
Students
Please review your course syllabus to understand how you can use GenAI in your work and any requirements, such as citing GenAI contributions.
Please review the following policies:
Your Data
The GenAI providers have agreed not to use your inputs or the outputs generated, to train their AI models. They also agree that you own all of the output, or at least that they will not assert any ownership rights in such output. A​ very limited number of ¶«¾©ÈÈ IT administrators may have access to the backend systems storing your information, bound by the Access to Electronic Information Policy to access this information only under specific warranted circumstances with proper approvals.
GenAI providers may use attributes, classifiers and metadata (information about how you interact with a product or service, including metrics like frequency, duration, and patterns of use), for things such as monitoring for abusive conduct or to improve their products. In some cases where abuse is flagged, GenAI providers may retain prompts and conduct a review of those prompts by a human.
Getting Started
Visit MavAI.mercy.edu to log in and start using the tool. It is available at no cost to you during the pilot phase.