UT Verse was developed with a strong emphasis on safeguarding user data and ensuring privacy for the University of Tennessee community. We have established a special agreement with Microsoft to protect your data from being used for training purposes. 

Instead of training the AI with your chats, the UT Verse AI Assistant gathers information from a comprehensive dataset that includes a wide range of publicly available texts, documents, and other publicly available data. This data encompasses books, articles, websites, and other textual resources used to train the language model. The AI does not learn from individual user interactions or personal data, ensuring privacy and confidentiality. 

• Data Residency—Data stays within UT and Microsoft’s secure environment 
• Third-Party Sharing—No sharing with external vendors or public AI models 
• User Data in Training—User interactions are not used to train the AI 
• Access Control—Only available to UT community via Microsoft 365 authentication 
• Sensitive Data Restriction—Not for use with highly regulated data (FERPA, HIPAA, PII, etc.) 
  • Visit AI Tennessee Initiative Resources and Access for assistance with AI computational resources.
  • Visit Research Computing Support for assistance with AI/ML software for research.

Feel free to chat with UT Verse anytime, knowing that your information is kept confidential. The UT Verse AI Assistant prioritizes your privacy and guarantees that your conversations are not used to train the AI. 

Learn more about UT Verse AI Assistant—Your intelligent academic companion for the University of Tennessee.