Using AI Ethically
To exemplify academic integrity, I acknowledge that many of the resources used in this page were collected by Holly, our wonderful teacher librarian.
AI Vocab
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
The capability of a machine to imitate intelligent human behaviour (Merriam Webster, 2023).
Generative AI
AI that creates original content (e.g. ChatGPT, MidJourney / not Siri or Alexa).
AI Image Generator
AI that creates original images by combining elements of other images it has been trained on (e.g. DALL-E, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, Adobe FireFly).
Large Language Model
Specialised AI that has been trained on vast amounts of text to understand existing content and generate original content e.g. ChatGPT, however there are many others (Garner, 2023).
How AI Image Generation Works
You can have a go at Image Generating Here
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity means being honest and doing your own work. It is important because it helps you earn recognition for your true abilities. This means that you get feedback on work you have actually done which helps teachers to help you learn. It is also important not to steal content or ideas and use them without permission from the person who had them.
ChatGPT (2023) 'What is academic integrity?' URL
BSSS Policy
Plagiarism is the copying, paraphrasing or summarising of work, in any form, without acknowledgement of sources, and presenting this as your own work.
Academic misconduct is not engaging genuinely and honestly in your own learning and assessment.
BSSS (2023) 'Academic Integrity for Students' URL
What does this mean?
If any part of your assessment item is not your own ideas, words or product, you must indicate the source to show that it is not your own work.
Submitted work must be substantially the result of your own effort and ideas.
Plagiarism is not restricted to words but includes unacknowledged ideas, thoughts, opinions, conclusions, diagrams, cartoons, art and practical works, photographs, music, graphs, pictures, statistics, tables, computer programs, computer graphics, visual information from the web, advertisements, interview responses, AI generated text/images/art/, app generated translations from a foreign language text, using a friend's mathematics assignment, etc – anything you can copy.
Changing a few words or images does not mean you do not have to acknowledge the source. Paraphrased material must still be acknowledged.
Presenting AI generated ideas, text, images as your own is academic misconduct.
Purchasing/acquiring an assessment item and submitting it as your own is academic misconduct.
BSSS (2023) 'Academic Integrity for Students' URL
Kosta, D. (2023). A Guide for Students: Should I use AI? URL
How to Reference AI?
The way we reference AI is currently evolving so the following is how I personally would like you to reference:
Name of AI program (date) 'Prompt used' URL for program
Example:
ChatGPT (2023) 'How should I APA reference chatgpt in my work?' URL
What if I have a conversation with ChatGPT?
You can include an 'Appendix' in your work. An 'Appendix' is additional information typically found at the end of a book or document, containing additional information, material or images.
Write 'Appendix' at the end of your document. For each piece of material, you can label them Appendix 1, Appendix 2, Appendix 3 etc...
You can provide screenshots of a conversation with ChatGPT as an Appendix. Each conversation should be a separate Appendix.
You can then in-text reference this in any work by writing after your sentences where you got ideas from an AI program the related appendix in brackets.
E.g. Three ideas related to surrealism are, dreamlike, subconscious, unconventional (Appendix 1).
Case Studies
In the following examples, identify:
1 - Has the student demonstrated a lack of academic integrity through the way they have used AI?
2 - Has the student used AI to try and help them learn?
3 - Is the student likely to meet assessment criteria through the way they have used AI?
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References
Bureau, J.S., Gareau, A., Guay, F., Mageau, G.A.. (2021). Investigating how autonomy-supportive teaching moderates the relation between student honesty and premeditated cheating. British Journal of Educational Psychology. 1-19, URL.
Board of Senior Secondary Studies (BSSS). (2023). Introduction to AI, URL.
Gartner. (2023). Gartner glossary: Large language models, URL.
Kosta, D. (2023). A Guide for Students: Should I use AI? In AI for education, URL.
Merriam Webster. (2023). Artificial intelligence, URL.
Note: As stated on the Welcome Page of this site, any images without references have been sourced from Unsplash.com.
My Thoughts
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