A primary principle of Academic Integrity is openness and transparency regarding what is your work.
Generative AI is a tool that is gaining increasing acceptance, but it must be used ethically and considerately. You need to be open in your use of AI, but you also need to remember that university is preparing you to be a professional, and your use of AI needs to be ethical in the context of your future career and field.
Check your use against the following questions:
When you upload files into a GenAI tool, you are usually granting permission for the tool to use your material as part of its training dataset.
This means that your material may be used for other applications in the future without your knowledge.
It also means that you need permission from the copyright holder before uploading any third-party material into a GenAI tool.
Before uploading any material into a GenAI tool (or any tool), check the terms and conditions to see:
If your assignment requires or encourages you to create an AI tool, or use AI to develop something potentially for use by members of the public, it is important to ensure you are developing your tools/products/programmes with Ethics Principles in mind.
The Department of Industry, Science and Resources has developed 8 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Principles to help guide the use and development of AI applications.
These voluntary principles are:
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