At Scotch, your work needs to be approached with honesty and integrity. This means giving credit when it's due and acknowledging contributions, including if and how generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been used in your assignments.

Generative AI (Artificial Intelligence that can produce contents) is now widely available to produce text, images, and other media. We encourage the use of such AI resources to inform yourself about the field, to understand the contributions that AI can make, and to help your learning.

However, keep the following principles in mind when using AI:

• Referencing: You are taking full responsibility for AI-generated materials as if you had produced them yourself: ideas must be attributed, and facts must be true.  Be aware that generative AI tends to invent sources.

Students must:

• Document the process
• Find and attribute the original source of the idea, identify the location of the source, and provide a working link to the location.

If you quote the AI itself, label it "synthesised communication" and reference it like the conventions for a "personal communication". Note that "synthesised communication" is not a valid source for facts, only for the conversation itself. 

• Validating:  Besides inventing sources, generative AI invents facts as well. Verification is your responsibility; submitting factually wrong material is an academic offense, and whether the source of the information if you or AI makes no difference.  You need to check the facts, the quotes, the arguments, and the logic, and document what you did to validate your material.

• Openness & Documentation: We encourage you to use AI tools to explore the field, play with knowledge, and help you study. But you need to be open about this and document your use.

• If the text is retrievable and sharable:

The company ("OpenAI") as author, not "ChatGPT." If the chat has no title, a description in square brackets (that ideally includes the prompts that were used) should be created. That would give you the following:

Company. (Date). [prompts]. URL

e.g. OpenAI. (2023, February 23). [ChatGPT response to a prompt about three prominent themes in Emily Dickinson’s poetry]. https://chat.openai.com/chat/1685cf78-f419-48ad-a289-8dcfe4bfad22

In-text: (OpenAI, 2023)

• If the text is not retrievable and sharable:

If the text is not retrievable and sharable then it falls into personal communication category where you use an in-text only citation:

Company, personal communication. (Date), Appendix

e.g. (OpenAI, personal communication, February 23, 2023, see Appendix 1) 

Plagiarism

- using someone's creative work without providing credit to them.

Artificial Intelligence

- a computer program or app that can perform tasks that typically require human intelligence (e.g., Analysing data, identifying objects, creating images or essays)

Generative AI

- a type of artificial intelligence that is designed to create content, like pictures and essays.

Attribution

- all ideas that are not originally one's own have a source and that source must be attributed.