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Ask Sharpen

Description

Ask Sharpen is an AI-powered study assistant built into the Sharpen app that helps students identify and close knowledge gaps. It allows students to create personalized study sets–like flashcards, quizzes, summaries, and explanations–on demand.

Privacy Ladder Level

1

Feature is Optional

Yes

Model Type

Generative

Base Model

OpenAI – GPT-4.o

(subject to change)

Trust Ingredients

Base Model Trained with Customer Data

Ask Sharpen is not trained on any user data or PII.

No

Customer Data is Shared with Model Vendor

Ask Sharpen runs on a private instance of base model that does not send data back to model vendor.

No

Training Data Anonymized

N/A

Data Deletion

McGraw Hill's engineering team will keep a secure record of all user interactions to monitor performance. User prompts are discarded after six months, and output data is discarded after three years. Uploaded documents are discarded immediately after processing the associated user queries.

Yes

Human in the Loop

While there are a number of safety and accuracy guardrails in place, users receive instant output from AI model.

No

Data Retention

Users prompts -  6 months, Output data - 3 years, Uploaded documents - discarded immediately after processing associated user queries.

Compliance

 

Logging & Auditing

McGraw Hill systematically reviews records of model input/output to audit performance. Model upgrades will be made as needed.

 

Guardrails

Ask Sharpen employs input and output guardrails. It does not engage in dialogue with users when offered biased or harmful language.

Yes

Input/Output Consistency

Yes

Other Resources

Ask your Learning Technology Representative for more information about Ask Sharpen.

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