AI tools

While the overview below includes recommendations for AI tools, it is essential to approach these tools with a critical and thoughtful mindset. Generally, paid versions offer greater security than free ones; however, even in paid versions, it’s advisable not to enter highly sensitive or personal information.

Students can find additional information under study tips, while employees can access more details on the intranet.

The tools below are organized by their type of use. You can also find the same tools arranged alphabetically by data security and GDPR at the bottom of this page.

Safe:

• Deepl write pro - Only paid version advisable
  Guarantee that your data will not be stored and used as training data. 
  
  
• Grammarly pro - Only paid version advisable
  Guarantee that your data will not be stored and used as training data. .

Be careful with these tools:

• Deepl write pro - Free version
  No guarantee of privacy and data security. This is only available in the paid pro version.
  
  
• Grammarly pro - Free version
  No guarantee of privacy and data security. This is only available in the paid pro version.

Do NOT use this tool:

• Quillbot - Free and paid version
  Does extensive tracking and online profiling and collects unnecessarily large amounts of personal data. The paid version offers no additional privacy and data security measures..

Do not give transcription or meeting tools access to your account and always ask permission from participants. Some tools interpret emotions, tone or engagement, which is not always accurate or desirable. Also be aware that addition of these types of tools to a meeting can influence participants' behaviour.

Safe:

• Avidnote - Free and paid version
  Based in the EU and GDPR compliant.
  
  
• Deepl voice - Only paid version 
  Guarantee that your data will not be stored and used as training data.
  
  
• MS O365 Transcribe - Only paid version
  Data is protected under Microsoft Enterprise NDA. Can only be done if your UHasselt account has a Microsoft licence.
  
  
• Scribewave - Only paid version
  Based in the EU and GDPR compliant.
  
  
• Scribe - Free and paid version
  GDPR compliant.
  
  
• Whisper - Only free version
  Open source licence, can only be used offline in own installation.

Be careful with these tools:

• Amberscript - Only paid version
  Uses your data to train the model.
  
  
• Fireflies.ai - Free and paid version
  Complies with GDPR but your data is stored and processed in USA.
  
  
• Otter.ai - Free and paid version
  Complies with GDPR but your data is stored and processed in USA.

Do NOT use:

• Read.ai - Free version
  Requests access to full Google workspace environment at sign up. Adds itself to meetings and starts recording without permission.

Safe:

• Elicit - Free and paid version
  Complies with GDPR but your data is stored and processed in USA. Papers you upload are only available to you and are not shared.
  
  
• Perplexity - Free and paid version
  Complies with GDPR but your data is stored and processed in USA. In the settings, there is the option to turn off “AI data retention”, the use of your data for model training.
  
  
• Scite - Only paid version
  Complies with GDPR but your data is stored and processed in USA. Does not sell data.

Be careful with these tools:

• Semantic Scholar - Only free version
  Complies with GDPR but your data is stored and processed in USA.

Do NOT use:

• Quillbot - Free and paid version
  Does extensive tracking and online profiling and collects unnecessarily large amounts of personal data. The paid version offers no additional privacy and data security measures.

Safe:

• Elicit - Free and paid version
  Complies with GDPR but your data is stored and processed in USA. Papers you upload are only available to you and are not shared.

Do NOT use:

• Scribbr - Only paid version
  Does extensive tracking and online profiling and unnecessarily collects personal data. Not clear what happens to the papers you upload.

Safe:

• Scholarcy - Free and paid version
  GDPR compliant.

Be careful with these tools:

• Humata.ai - Free and paid version
  Not (fully) GDPR compliant.
  
  
• Iris.ai - Only paid version
  Indicates it may use your data for legitimate interest and commercial interest.

Be careful with these tools:

• Consensus - Free and paid version
  Does fairly extensive tracking and online profiling.
  
  
• Semantic Scholar - Only free version
  Complies with GDPR but your data is stored and processed in USA.

Safe:

• Moxie - Only paid version
  Has the option not to save conversations. Uses multiple general purpose models that are all compliant (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity).

Be careful with this tool:

• Github copilot - Free and paid version
  Uses inputs to train the model. Settings are available to constrain this behaviour.

The tools you find above by type of use are listed alphabetically below by data security and GDPR.