AI Use & Academic Integrity

In short

Ducky is an AI. It's often right and sometimes confidently wrong. Check what matters.
It's built to help you understand, not to do your work: it asks you questions, gives hints, and checks your steps.
Your school's rules about AI come first. Don't use it on tests unless you're allowed to.
When Ducky clicks or types on your screen, it says so first, never in a password field, and never to submit, pay, send or delete for you. You can stop it any time.

This guide is part of the Terms of Service between you and MingLLM, Inc. It explains how Ducky works, what it can't do, and how to use it honestly.

1. How Ducky works

Two AI models work together. A voice model (OpenAI's live voice model) talks with you in real time. A second model (OpenAI's reasoning model, "Ducky's thinking") plans what to show, looks at your screen and uses Ducky's tools: pointing, drawing, writing on a whiteboard, quizzes, flashcards, graphs, simulations, maps, timelines, code walkthroughs, web searches, and pictures. When you type instead of talking, an OpenAI model answers you in writing with the same tools.
It sees what you show it. Ducky looks at your screen when you ask, when you point with fn + cmd, or when it needs to; during a session it notices when the screen changes. It remembers what you're learning (your profile, notes about how you learn, mistakes you tend to make, recent sessions) so it can pick up where you left off. You can turn its memory off in Settings.
It checks math by computing. For many math problems Ducky checks steps with a computer algebra system instead of guessing, and it can run code in a sandbox to show what it does: in the Mac app, on your Mac; in the web app, Python on our servers with no internet access, and JavaScript and TypeScript in your browser.
It's instructed to teach, not tell. Ducky is set up to ask what you think first, give hints before answers, and have you do the steps yourself.

2. What Ducky can get wrong

Facts and steps. It can state wrong facts, make arithmetic or reasoning mistakes, or explain something in a way that's off for your class.
Your screen. It can misread what's on screen, point at the wrong thing, or click the wrong place.
Grades and reports. Its grades on tests and its progress reports are estimates, not official grades.
Sources. Web results and pictures come from other sites and may be wrong or outdated.
Your situation. It doesn't know your teacher's expectations, and it isn't a doctor, counselor or lawyer.

So: double-check anything that matters with your teacher, your textbook or another reliable source. If Ducky says something that seems wrong, tell it; it should look again.

3. Learn honestly

Your school's rules come first. Different classes allow different things. Follow your school's and your teachers' rules about AI, homework and tests. If you're not sure, ask your teacher.
Tests and exams: don't use DuckyHelper during a test, quiz or exam unless you're allowed to.
Your own work: don't hand in Ducky's words, answers or code as your own where that isn't allowed. If you used Ducky to learn something, it's fine (and often good) to say so.
What Ducky does for you: it explains, gives hints, quizzes you and checks your steps. It won't finish, submit or post work for you.
Parents and teachers can see a learner's progress in the reports the learner chooses to send them (and, for a child under 13, in the weekly report to their parent).

4. When Ducky acts on your screen

With the Accessibility permission, Ducky can click, type, press keys, scroll and drag on your real screen. It does this only to show you how to do something, or when you clearly ask it to. It is set up to:

say what it's about to do first, one action at a time, and look again after;
never act in a password field (the app refuses, whatever the AI asks for) and never type passwords, card numbers or other secrets;
never finish, submit, pay, send or delete anything in your place, and never press destructive shortcuts unless you asked for exactly that.

Every action shows in the session's transcript. You stay in control: you can stop at any time by pressing fn or closing the pill, and you can turn the Accessibility permission off in System Settings, Privacy & Security (Ducky then can't act on your screen at all). You're responsible for what happens in your apps, so watch what Ducky does and stop it if it's not what you wanted.

Google connections work the same way: Ducky only drafts emails, events and documents. Nothing is sent or created until you tap it yourself.

5. Safety

Ducky is instructed to stay kind and age-appropriate, to keep personal information private and not ask for it, and, if a learner seems upset or unsafe, to respond with care and suggest talking to a trusted adult. Our AI providers' own safety systems apply too. AI safety measures aren't perfect. If Ducky says something harmful or inappropriate, tell us at support@duckyhelper.com.

6. Your data and AI training

What you say and show is processed by our AI providers to answer you. Neither we nor they use it to train AI models. See the Privacy Policy.