Responsible AI.

GPTQuest uses artificial intelligence inside short authored quests to make storytelling feel alive. AI is one part of how each game works, alongside game design, art, music, and rules written by people. This page explains, in plain language, how we use AI, what we ask of it, and where the boundaries are.

What AI does in GPTQuest

Inside a quest, AI helps generate dialogue, character reactions, and narrative beats based on what a player types or chooses. The story arc, characters, rules, and rewards are all designed and written by us; AI fills in the moment-to-moment storytelling so each playthrough feels different.

Some quests also generate images and music tied to gameplay (for example, a player composing a song in Lyra the Songweaver, or a picture of the creature a player describes in My Magical Animal).

What AI doesn't do

• It doesn't give advice. AI in GPTQuest is for storytelling, not for medical, legal, mental-health, financial, or safety guidance.
• It doesn't replace the teacher. Teachers remain in charge of how the platform is used in the classroom, what is assigned, and how outcomes are reviewed.
• It doesn't connect students to strangers. A student cannot add anyone. The only people on their friends list are the classmates in their own classroom and the adults who run it, and we put them there when the school creates the accounts. A two-player quest can only be started with someone from that list, and in-game chat between students is limited to curated emojis, stickers, and preset phrases, with no free-text chat.
• It doesn't learn from students. We do not train our own AI models, and our providers (OpenAI, ElevenLabs, and Runware) do not use what we send to train theirs. We never send any user's name, email, or account identifier to our providers, whether that user is a student or a teacher; only the content needed to generate a result (a prompt or song lyrics) is sent, an automated filter removes personal information a player may have typed before it goes out, and none of it is linked to anyone. And because what we send carries no identity, even the content itself cannot be used to identify, contact, or profile a child or any adult.

The models we use

We use trusted third-party AI providers and choose models that fit the type of content being generated. We do not train our own foundation models, and we never attach student names, emails, or account identifiers to what we send, so those inputs are not linked to any student.

• Text and dialogue: OpenAI (GPT family of models)
• Images: Runware (FLUX-based image models with curated styles per quest)
• Music: ElevenLabs (Eleven Music)

How we keep it safe

Generative AI is powerful but imperfect. We rely on several layers, not just one, to keep gameplay age-appropriate:

• Authored quests, not open chat. Every quest has a defined goal, scenario, and rules. Players do type to the characters in a quest, but there is no open-ended chatbot behind them: each character follows the instructions written for that quest, and the story has an ending.
• Custom guardrails per quest. Each quest's instructions tell the AI what it can and can't do, including how to handle off-topic or adversarial inputs.
• Content checks on the way in and the way out. Every player input, and every AI response a player will read, is screened automatically before it goes any further. The screening is tuned per quest, because what reads as ordinary play in a dragon fight is not what reads as ordinary play elsewhere. If a check cannot run on a response, the response is withheld and a safe fallback line is shown instead. Our providers also apply their own content policies.
• Personal information stays out. Before anything a player typed is sent to a provider, an automated filter removes personal information such as a real name given in context, an address, a phone number, or a school name, without rewriting the rest of what the player wrote.
• Tested adversarially, not assumed. An automated suite sends real attack prompts, including attacks hidden in saved game data rather than typed by a student, through our AI-backed quest routes, and a companion suite runs the same attacks through the two-player quests from start to finish. Both are re-run whenever prompts or guardrails change, and a run that never reached the real model is reported as a failure, not a pass. The music quest sits outside those suites because running it would generate paid audio, so its screening is covered by deterministic tests instead.
• Server-side rules. Rewards, progress, and game state are validated by our own code, not granted by the AI.
• Reporting built into the app. Anyone can report a problem from inside the platform, and we review every report.

When AI gets it wrong

Even with these layers, AI can occasionally produce something inaccurate, off-topic, or simply odd. When that happens, we want to hear about it. Reports go to our team, and we prioritize fixes for anything reproducible. Most issues come down to tightening a quest's instructions, updating a filter, or adjusting which model we use for a particular case.

If you see AI output in GPTQuest that concerns you, please report it through the in-app reporting feature or via our Contact Uspage (select "Report" from the dropdown).

What we ask of teachers and parents

AI is a creative tool, not an authority. We design our quests carefully, but supervision still matters:

• Treat AI output the way you'd treat any imaginative storytelling, not as fact.
• If something AI says contradicts your school's policies or your family's values, talk it through with the student.
• Encourage students to report anything that feels off, just as they would report a problem in any classroom tool.

Privacy and student data

Student accounts in GPTQuest are created by the school's Account Owner and used under the supervision of the Teachers assigned to the student's classroom; students never sign up on their own, and we treat student data accordingly. Full details on what we collect, how we use it, and how COPPA and FERPA shape our practices live in our Privacy Policy.

The legal version

This page is the plain-language version. The formal disclaimers, acknowledgments, and your rights as a user live in our Terms of Service, Section 10. By using GPTQuest, you're agreeing to those Terms.

Questions or feedback

We're a small team and we read what you send us. If you have questions about how we use AI, suggestions, or concerns, reach out via Contact Us.