For every assignment and test, ask your instructor what their expectations are with respect to AI use. If you are unsure whether use of this tool (or what specific use) is allowed in your course, reach out to your instructor.
Experiment with AI tools to better understand what they can and cannot do. Take the time to critically analyze the output. (Sometimes it looks great on the surface, but not when you look more deeply at the content. These tools are great synthesizers, but the critical thinker is you.)
Review JIBC's Academic Integrity policy and understand what constitutes academic misconduct. More examples of academic misconduct can be found on the Library's Academic Integrity webpage.
If you are allowed to use AI and include quotes or paraphrased information in you assignment, you must cite the information in APA format.
Read the sections below to understand appropriate and inappropriate uses of generative AI technology.
Make sure you only use the AI tool that was approved and you only use it in the way it is allowed.
Example. Your instructor says you can ask ChatGPT for five arguments for and five against recycling, then discuss the arguments critically yourself using sources you found through the KPU library's databases. In this case, you are only allowed to ask ChatGPT for the arguments. You would not be allowed to ask ChatGPT to discuss the arguments it came up with or find sources.
When using AI in to complete an assignment, we suggest you include an acknowledgment of how you used the AI, including your prompt(s) and the generated output (see the Citing AI page). You also need to properly cite the output ChatGPT created, and of course, the resources you found in the library as well.
Generative AI can create quizzes and questions you can use to practice and prepare for exams. However, you cannot upload content your instructor created without their consent, as this would be infringing on copyright. So, before uploading any course materials you must ask your instructor if you can do so.
You may ask generative AI to explain concepts or theories in plain language or in different ways. Note that you must evaluate the generated content for accuracy and that you cannot use it in your assignment, unless you have permission from your instructor to do so (see the Evaluating AI Generated Content page).
You may use AI generated output to critically discuss AI, if your instructor permits you to do so.
Example. Your instructor permits you to prompt ChatGPT to write a poem in the style of Susan Glickman or prompt DALL-E to create an image in the style of Dorothy Knowles, and include the output in your work to discuss it's style, etc. You should still include an acknowledgement of how you used the AI tool and a citation for the output (see the Citing AI page).
If you are using generated images, audio files and/or codes, check if your AI tool mentions any use or copyright restrictions on the works it creates.
If you use an AI tool (e.g. ChatGPT) without permission from your instructor to create your assignment and then submit it as your own work, you are committing breaches of academic integrity in a variety of ways. Review the Library's Academic Integrity page for examples of academic misconduct.
Cheating includes misrepresenting one’s knowledge by using any unauthorized device or aid in the preparation or completion of an Academic Assessment. If you did not get permission from your instructor to use an AI tool for your assignment and do so anyway, you would be using an unauthorized aid. As you are submitting an assignment that was not done by you, you would misrepresent what you can do and what you know.
Plagiarism means presenting the ideas and words of others as your own without giving proper credit to the original sources. If you are submitting an assignment that was created by an AI tool as your own creation, you are presenting the ideas of others, even if this "other" is not a human being.
Fabrication refers to the intentional use of invented information or the falsification of research or other findings. Text generating AI tools such as ChatGPT sometimes make up information and references to sources that don't exist. This is commonly referred to as "AI Hallucination". If you submit an assignment that contains information, research or data that is made up and/or references that don't exist, then you are committing academic integrity misconduct in the form of fabrication.
AI tools use content from the internet to generate their output. In Canada, content in a fixed form is automatically copyrighted. For example, if you prompt a text-generating AI tool like ChatGPT to create a song similar to Leonard Cohen's "Anthem", or ask an image-generating AI tool like DALL-E to create an image using the style of a contemporary artist, you may be infringing copyright as AI tools draw from the existing works and reproduce derivatives of them.
Unless otherwise noted, this guide is licensed under a CC BY-SA 4.0 (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License).
Information on this page was adapted from Mount Royal University Library's Artificial Intelligence page, which is licensed under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
The information on this page was adapted with permission from KPU's Artificial Intelligence LibGuide, created by Ulrike Kestler.