kiChat

Institution: Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen Category: AI Service
Website: https://ki-chat.uni-giessen.de/

Description

kiChat is a KI service provided by Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen that enables users to create texts and images using artificial intelligence. The service supports creative and scientific tasks through interactive KI models. Usage is via an intuitive interface, where inputs (prompts) are anonymously forwarded to locally operated or cloud-based systems. The main benefit lies in the simple, secure, and data protection-compliant use of KI technologies within the university.

Access & Availability

Target Audience: -
Access Requirements: -
Availability: Not specified

Contact & Support

Contact Person: - Präsidentin Prof. Dr. Katharina Lorenz - Datenschutzbeauftragter der JLU - Emma Redmond, Head of EU Data Protection (OpenAI)
Email: datenschutz@uni-giessen.de
Support: -

Technical Details

• Technology: ["HAWKI (Webinterface für KI-Anwendungen)", "OpenAI (Sprachmodelle, Auftragsdatenverarbeitung)", "Google (Auftragsdatenverarbeitung)", "Anthropic (Auftragsdatenverarbeitung)", "REST (vermutlich verwendeter API-Standard, implizit durch Webdienst)", "Session Cookies (Technologie zur Sitzungsverwaltung)"]
• Platform: Web application, Cloud (with local and external cloud usage), integration into existing university infrastructures (identity management, servers of JLU).
• License: - Open Source Lizenzen (MIT, GPL, Apache): Nicht angegeben
• Proprietäre Lizenzen: Nicht angegeben
• Nutzungsbedingungen: Auf der Website ist ein Link zu den Nutzungsbedingungen vorhanden, jedoch sind diese im bereitgestellten Kontext nicht enthalten. Die Nutzungsbedingungen regeln, welche Daten Nutzende persönlich in den Dienst einbringen dürfen (z. B. „Prompts“ oder Uploads).

Features

• Generation of media such as texts or images using Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• Input of texts (so-called "prompts") for processing by AI systems
• Storage of individual user settings (e.g., language, system display)
• Device-independent availability of user chat histories
• Use of session cookies to recognize the user after a page change
• Anonymous transmission of user inputs to a server operated locally at JLU
• Processing of inputs (prompts) by language models running locally on JLU servers or on cloud systems within and outside the EU
• Temporary storage of inputs and metadata (ID, timestamp) by OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic
• Automatic deletion of inputs after a defined period (e.g., 30 days)
• No use of user inputs for training the language models

Recorded: 2026-01-11
Source: https://ki-chat.uni-giessen.de/