Responsible AI Use

Pipp is the AI reviewer inside PeerPath. It reads your drafts and tells you what is landing and what is not, so that you can make the work better yourself. This page explains, in plain language, how to use it well. The formal version lives in our Terms of Service.

What Pipp is for

Pipp is for understanding and improving your own work. Ask it what a paragraph is actually saying, where a reader loses the thread, whether an example is doing the job you think it is doing, or what a prompt is really asking for. You are meant to use it. Feedback is the point.

A good review leaves you with something to do. The useful outcome is a clearer idea of what to change, and then a revision written by you.

What stays yours

Your application is yours. In practice that means:

• The experiences. What you actually did, and what actually happened.
• The ideas. Your angle, and the thing you decided was worth saying.
• The reflection. What you make of it, in your own thinking.
• The decisions. Which story to tell, what to cut, where to apply.
• The final writing. The sentences you submit are written by you.

What not to do

Do not submit substantive AI-generated content as your own. If a sentence, a paragraph, or an essay was written by a model and you submit it as your writing, that is the line, whichever tool produced it.

The boundary is authorship and substantive content, not use. Using Pipp to understand your draft is fine. Handing it the pen is not.

Two examples

Good use. You run a personal statement draft through Pipp, and it points out that your paragraph about the robotics team states your persistence rather than showing it. The sentence says you kept going, but nothing on the page lets a reader watch you keep going. You go back, cut the claim, and write the two weeks when the drivetrain kept failing. The observation came from Pipp. The memory, the choice of which two weeks, and every sentence are yours.

Misuse. You ask a model to write a paragraph about persistence, like the way it sounds, and paste it into your essay. Even after you edit it, the substance and the writing are not yours, and the essay has stopped telling a reader who you are.

Institution policies

Colleges, universities, and application systems set their own rules about AI. Those rules differ from one place to another and they change over time. Following the policy of each place you apply to is your responsibility, and PeerPath does not monitor or interpret those policies for you.

The practical version: before you submit, read the application instructions and the admissions site for each school on your list, and follow what they say. If anything there differs from this page, follow the school.

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