AI Output Disclaimer

Effective date: 4 September 2026 Last revised: 5 October 2026

This is part of the Terms of Service and expands Section 7 of it. Read it with the Academic Integrity Policy, which covers the part your school cares about.

In one sentence

Everything CourseLite generates is written by a language model, it is often wrong, and checking it is your job — not ours and not the model's.

1. What "generated" means here

CourseLite's answers, flashcards, practice tests, guided study sessions and other study material are produced by a third-party language model (currently OpenAI's API). They are not:

• written or reviewed by a person at CourseLite,
• fact-checked against anything,
• verified against your syllabus, your instructor's expectations, or a marking rubric,
• proofread, or
• guaranteed to be original.

Nobody at CourseLite reads your generated work before you do.

2. The specific ways it goes wrong

Not a generic caveat. These are the actual failure modes, and knowing which one you are looking at is what makes checking tractable.

1. It invents facts and states them confidently. A fabricated date, a statistic that does not exist, a formula with a wrong constant — delivered in exactly the same tone as a correct one. There is no signal in the writing that tells you which is which.
2. It misattributes. A quote given to the wrong author, an idea credited to the wrong theorist, a source that says nearly but not quite the thing it is cited for.
3. It gets arithmetic and derivations wrong. Confidently, and often with a correct-looking method around a wrong step.
4. Grounding is not correctness. CourseLite answers from your own course material and shows where an answer came from. That makes it traceable, not right. The cited passage may not support the claim, and it may not be the passage your instructor had in mind.
5. It cannot see what it never read. Extraction fails on some material: a scanned page, a handwritten note, a diagram with no text, a file your Canvas account cannot open, a page your instructor has not published. CourseLite answers as though it read everything available, and does not know what it is missing.
6. It is not stable. The same question can produce different answers on different days, because the model changes and generation is not deterministic.
7. It does not know your course's conventions. Notation, preferred method, the specific definition your lecturer uses in week 3 — unless that is in the material it retrieved, it will use whatever is most common in general.
8. It may reproduce phrasing from your course material. An answer assembled from your readings can echo them closely. Copying it into your own work unmarked is plagiarism regardless of who or what assembled it.

3. What CourseLite deliberately does not fake

Some of these are worth as much as the warnings above.

• CourseLite does not write your assignments. Since 5 October 2026 it has no feature that drafts, fills in or submits an assignment (see the Academic Integrity Policy). It does not build reference lists, so it has nothing to fabricate one with.
• The model has no tools, with one exception. It returns text. It cannot call a function, change a record, or write to your Google Drive — and CourseLite itself no longer writes to Google files at all. A document in your course containing instructions aimed at an AI reaches a model with no way to act on them. The exception: when a Guided Study session is planned for a course with too little material to teach from, it may search the public web for the subject. Such a session says on every screen that it comes from the web and not from your course, and lists the pages — they can be wrong, out of date, or taught differently from how your instructor teaches it.

4. What you have to do

Before you rely on anything generated:

• Read every word. Not skim.
• Check every factual claim against the course material or another source you trust.
• Redo the arithmetic.
• Open the citations and confirm the passage says what the answer says it says.
• Check it answers the question actually asked.
• Do your coursework yourself. An answer copied into an assignment is not your work, and most courses treat it that way.

5. What CourseLite is not

Not a source of academic, legal, medical, financial, tax, safety, immigration or any other professional advice. Not a proctored-assessment tool. Not a plagiarism or AI detector, and not a way to evade one. Not a submission mechanism — CourseLite has no way to hand anything in, and is not building one.

No guarantee of a grade. Nothing CourseLite produces is a prediction of, a promise about, or a contribution to any mark. We do not guarantee that generated material is accurate, complete, current, original, appropriate for your course, or acceptable to your instructor.

On AI detectors. Institutions use tools that claim to identify machine writing. They are unreliable in both directions — they flag human writing and miss machine writing — and they are used to open misconduct cases anyway. CourseLite makes no claim about whether its output will be flagged, does nothing to evade detection, and would not help you if it could.

6. Where your material goes to make this happen

To generate anything, CourseLite sends the relevant part of your course material, and what you type, to a third-party AI provider's API. That is how the product works; there is no version of it that keeps everything on one machine. Section 7 of the Privacy Policy says exactly what is sent, what is not, and what the provider publishes about what it does with it.

If you would rather your coursework were not processed by a third-party model, do not use the features that generate text. Adding and browsing a course does not require it.

7. Liability

Section 16 of the Terms of Service limits our liability, and specifically excludes liability for academic consequences — a grade, a failed course, a misconduct finding, disciplinary action, a lost scholarship or place. That exclusion is there because what you hand in, and how you used CourseLite to prepare it, are decisions only you can make.

Nothing here excludes liability that the law applying to you does not allow to be excluded.

8. Questions

support@courselite.org. If your question is "what exactly does CourseLite send where, and what can it reach" — ask, and we will tell you plainly. If it is "does my professor allow this" — we cannot answer that one, and the Academic Integrity Policy explains why.