Using Copilot
Keep your data safe and your mind at ease with UNSW's Microsoft Copilot Commercial Data Protection.
What is Microsoft Copilot?
Copilot with commercial data protection (formerly known as Bing Chat) is a generative AI chatbot powered by OpenAI tools. It can engage in human-like conversations to answer questions, assist with generating ideas, write various forms of content and create both artistic and realistic images.
Copilot generates responses and content from the data it was trained on, combined with public web data. It provides the latest information, cites references using superscripts and generates a list of relevant links for further learning.
Copilot features multimodal input capabilities, including text, voice and images, allowing it to analyse and respond effectively. It can generate not only text responses but also images using DALL-E, an AI text-to-image generator. Additionally, Copilot can understand and communicate fluently in multiple languages.
Using Copilot
By using advanced security features, Microsoft Copilot maintains the confidentiality and integrity of sensitive business information. It adheres to compliance standards, safeguards against unauthorised access and implements industry-leading encryption methods to protect your commercial data.
How to access Copilot @UNSW
UNSW’s credential access to Copilot ensures that user prompts and responses are not retained, saved, or used as part of any training set for the underlying large language model. This Commercial Data Protection ensures that sensitive information, data, and intellectual property remain unseen and secure from Microsoft.
You can access Copilot at copilot.microsoft.com, with the best results using the Microsoft Edge browser sidebar. To use Copilot on your mobile device, download the Microsoft Edge app on Android or iOS and tap the Copilot icon at the bottom.
How to sign in to Copilot
- Click ‘Sign in’ and enter your zID followed by @ad.unsw.edu.au.
- Click ‘Next’ and use your zPass.
- Authenticate using the MFA app on your phone.
Copilot is compatible with Microsoft Edge and Chrome on desktop PCs. Ensure you're signed in with your work account, indicated by a tag next to your credentials in the top right corner. Without signing in with your work account, your data will not be protected when using AI chat.
How do you use Copilot?
Step 1: Choose a conversation style
- Creative: Provides original, human-like responses with more elaboration and examples.
- Precise: Offers concise, factual answers, ideal for straightforward information.
- Balanced: A mix of creative and precise, delivering the fastest response time.
Step 2: Type your prompt
Enter your question or instruction in the text box.
Use detailed questions or statements to generate customised responses. For example, craft a good prompt and explore different uses of prompts/genAI.
Use natural language—there’s no need to break your question into keywords.
Step 3: Export responses
Copy or export AI responses to Word, text, or PDF.
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When you sign in and use Copilot with Commercial Data Protection using your UNSW credentials, all conversations are confidential, anonymised and not stored or used for AI training purposes. It's powerful and protective.
Powerful AI models
Copilot uses GPT-4 for text and DALL-E 3 for images, the advanced AI models.
Transparent about sources
Copilot cites the data sources behind its answers.
No knowledge cutoff
Copilot provides up-to-date answers. Answers are not limited by the date of the AI model.
Commercial data protection
Copilot doesn't save prompts or answers, nor use them to train the AI model.
Protect our data - use Copilot for AI Chat
Copilot is our official AI chat because it keeps our data safe:
Work account
Your content is treated appropriately through Copilot. Data Loss Prevention protections are respected by Copilot when using the Microsoft Edge browser.
No human eyes
After signing in, data is encrypted and is not seen by humans.
Discarded
Prompts and answers are discarded at the end of a session. Data is not used to train AI models.