Academic Integrity & Community Standards 

San Francisco Film School students are expected to uphold/demonstrate commonly accepted practices as related to the use of non-original source materials. These practices include:  

• Using citations to acknowledge others’ ideas and evidence even when you put them in your own words. Please use the Chicago Style Guide as a reference: Chicago Style Citation Guide 

• Placing quotation marks around another source’s terms, phrases, and sentences, and citing the source. If paraphrasing another’s work, no need for quotation marks though it is still necessary to cite the source(s). 

• Unless otherwise stated by the instructor and/or the course curriculum, text or images generated from AI, machine learning, or similar tools cannot be used in papers, scripts, reaction video responses or written responses to Discussion Prompts for attendance, or any other writing assignments submitted; nor can the accompanying figures, images, or graphics be the products of such tools, without explicit permission from the course instructor. In addition, an AI program cannot be an author of a paper, story draft, discussion post, or screenplay. Courses at SFFS are designed to allow students the opportunity to learn new skills and gain confidence in their own minds and intellect. Relying on outside sources to complete assignments negates these goals and diminishes the opportunities for growth and learning. 

• If instructors do allow students to use AI as a tool (not to generate what is meant to be original content, such as a script or story), SFFS requires that students (1) cite ChatGPT or whichever AI program utilized (2) place language that is sourced from ChatGPT/other AI in quotation marks, and (3) write a few sentences explaining how AI was utilized as a tool and to what effect. This practice is required because it encourages clarity of thought and intention as well as academic and creative integrity.

A violation of this policy constitutes plagiarism and academic misconduct, which will lead to a disciplinary hearing that can result in a failing grade and loss of credit on the assignment and/or the course, at the discretion of the Disciplinary Board.

Resources

How to Cite Sources

Chicago Style Citation Guide

SAG AFTRA AI Use Policy 

WGA AI Use Policy and Agreement