Access and Security
Data Stewardship
Catchat is run locally at Montana Sate University and provided to Faculty, Staff, and Students free of charge. Catchat is approved for use with data which is classified as “Public” (data which may be released to the general public in a controlled manner) or “Restricted” (such as FERPA protected data, financial transactions which don’t include confidential data, contracts, etc.) by the Bozeman Data Stewardship Standards. Unlike many commercial generative AI systems, Catchat keeps your data in-house and does not use it to retain public models.
The above approval for public and restricted data types does not imply approval for any specific use cases. It is important to follow institutional, departmental, and instructor gridlines for allowable and appropriate uses of these tools. Catchat and the models contained within are experimental and may produce inaccurate or incomplete results so output should always be verified.
Environmental Impact
Catchat is maintained by Research Computing with computational resources provided by the Tempest supercomputer which is powered by approximately 80% renewable energy and cooled with systems that do not consume water.
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