Code of Conduct

The DeepLearning.AI Community is a Welcoming Place for Public Discussion

We are a global community that works together to bring the knowledge of artificial intelligence to all people. We are the community for anyone looking to gain a new skill, network with peers, find a mentor, get career advice, teach others, or build their profile as a leader in AI!

Please treat this Discourse community with respect. We are a shared resource — a place to help one another learn skills, knowledge, and interests through ongoing conversation.

The conversations we have here set the tone for every new arrival. Help us influence the future of this discourse community by choosing to engage in discussions that make this discourse community an interesting place to be — and avoiding those that do not.

Our forum provides tools that enable the community to collectively identify the best (and worst) contributions: bookmarks, likes, flags, replies, edits, and so forth. Use these tools to improve your own experience, and everyone else’s, too.

These guidelines are in place to help aid the human judgment of our discourse community and keep this a clean and enlightened place for civilized public discussion and learning.

Maintaining Integrity

At DeepLearning.AI, we put a lot of emphasis on the quality of our curriculum. In order to maintain the integrity of our online courses, respect the contributions of our instructors, and protect the value of earning a certificate - we expect all learners, testers, and contributors to comply with both Coursera’s Honor Code as well as our own honor code and copyright, which is described below.

• Plagiarism. Is when you take someone else’s work or ideas and pass them off as your own without giving credit to the original owner. This is a serious academic offense. If we find that you plagiarize any material, you will be removed from the course, from our discourse community, and your certificate will be withheld or revoked. No refunds will be given to learners who plagiarize.
  
  

• You must post your own work for homework, quizzes, and programming assignments. Any work you submit authored by another individual is considered plagiarism, which is a serious offense.
  
  

• You should not post anything digital that belongs to someone else without permission. You should not  post descriptions of, links to, or methods for stealing someone’s intellectual property (software, video, audio, images), or for breaking any other law.
  
  

• You should not share code or your solutions to homework, quizzes, or exams with anyone other than a DeepLearning.AI mentor or staff member. This includes posting solutions to our  discourse community, Github, or any other code repository. If you are found doing this, DeepLearning.AI reserves the right to suspend your account and conduct a full review of your engagement with our discourse community.
  
  

• You should not promote any outside groups within our discourse community. The solicitation of DeepLearning.AI community members to other groups, platforms, and or communities is prohibited on our forum. Along with the sharing of code, solutions to homework, quizzes, and/or exams to external groups/organizations.
  
  

• You should not distribute slides or lecture notes for commercial purposes. For example, you should not  include notes on Github in exchange for any form of payment or services.
  
  

You may freely distribute lecture slides for educational purposes under the Creative Commons License as long as you cite DeepLearning.AI as the source. For example: DeepLearning.AI (2021, October 25). What is AI? Retrieved from AI4E: Lecture Notes

Be Respectful & Kind

There are no brilliant jerks. You may wish to respond to something by disagreeing with it and that’s okay. We are a global discourse community that encompasses many people, ideals, and opinions. You may criticize ideas, but not people. Please avoid:

• Name-calling

• Ad hominem attacks

• Responding to a post’s tone instead of its actual content

• Knee-jerk contradiction

Instead, provide reasoned counter-arguments that improve the conversation.

Nothing sabotages a healthy conversation like rudeness:

• Be civil. Don’t post anything that a reasonable person would consider offensive, abusive, or hate speech.

• Keep it clean. Don’t post anything obscene or sexually explicit.

• Respect each other. Don’t harass anyone, impersonate people, or expose their private information.

• Respect our forum. Don’t post spam or vandalize the forum.

This is a public forum, and search engines index these discussions. Keep the language, links, and images safe for family and friends.

If You See Something; Say Something

Flag the posts or topics that violate the DeepLearning.AI code of conduct and/or policies. Our team will be alerted and will take immediate action.

Moderators and Mentors have special authority; they are responsible for this forum. But so are you. With your help, moderators and mentors will monitor the discourse community and facilitate conversations.

When you see bad behavior, don’t reply. It encourages bad behavior by acknowledging it, consumes your energy, and wastes everyone’s time. Just flag it. Action will be taken, either automatically or by moderator intervention. If an issue arises that requires immediate attention please reach out to one of our community mentors or moderators and they will be able to assist moving forward and/or loop in the appropriate staff person if needed.

• In order to maintain our discourse community, moderators reserve the right to remove any content and any user account for any reason at any time. Moderators do not review/screen new posts; the moderators and site operators take no responsibility for any content posted by the discourse community.

Stronger Together

This site is operated by your friendly staff and “You” the discourse community. If you have any further questions about how things should work here, open a new topic in the site feedback category and let’s discuss! If there’s a critical or urgent issue that can’t be handled by a meta topic or flag, contact us via Community@deepLearning.AI

Code of Conduct & Policy Violations

Our policies are put in place to maintain a safe and respectful learning environment for all. All reports made to DeepLearning.AI will be taken seriously. Those who don’t follow the Code of Conduct in good faith may face repercussions deemed appropriate by our team. If a violation of discourse community policies takes place. We reserve the right to suspend any account associated with the offense until a full review is conducted. Repeat offenses will result in immediate removal from the discourse community. 

 This is how we handle violations and misconduct: 

1. Initial Warning: For most first-time misconduct, our team will remove offending content and send a warning. Most issues are resolved at this stage.
   
   

2. Silence User: For misconduct or behavior containing abusive language or criticism that could negatively impact the forum environment. Our team will remove all such posts and silence the user. For instance, Spamming the forum with the same topic or in multiple categories or within the same category. And/or the sharing of code will result in silencing of the user and/or deletion of related posts.
   
   

3. Suspend User: For repetitive unacceptable behavior our team will impose suspension of the user account. Users found to instigate Groupism , regionalism or divert members of the community to other external forums for personal benefit may be suspended.
   
   

4. Remove/ Delete User: Intolerant users will be heavily penalized. For intolerant cases, our team will expel people who display a pattern of destructive behavior toward the members of the discourse community. Plagiarism is one such example where the user account along with all posts made by the user will be deleted and/or anonymized and the user’s course certificates (if received any) will be revoked. 

See our Zero Tolerance Policy for additional details.

Terms of Service

Yes, legalese is boring, but we must protect ourselves – and by extension, you and your data – against unfriendly folks. We have a Terms of Service describing your (and our) behavior and rights related to content, privacy, and laws. To use this service, you must agree to abide by our TOS.

For any questions or concerns, please send an email to hello@deeplearning.AI Thank you!