Using AI: Academic Integrity Expectations
Smartcases and Exams
AI tools are never permitted for smartcases and exams.
The use of these tools in assessments would constitute an academic integrity violation and could result in serious consequences up to and including removal from the program.
Projects and Assignments
The text produced through the use of such tools should not replace the substance of your assignment.
Before using AI, be sure to read all the citation requirements, which include sharing your full AI conversation. Most importantly, remember you should be able to defend your work with little preparation to demonstrate that the content, depth, and writing is yours, not AI’s.
By ‘defend,’ we mean that if someone were to ask a question about anything in the document, you would be able to respond quickly, accurately, and without needing to reference anything. If there are parts of your document where if asked a question you would say - ‘I didn’t actually write that, it was generated by chatgpt, I’ll have to look into it,’ that text should probably not be in your document.
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Acceptable uses
(this is not an exhaustive list)
Creating Visual Aids
- AI tools are great for quickly developing copyright-free diagrams or illustrative images.
Research support
- Generate a list of sources (e.g. articles) that you can use as a starting point for your research - note that AI tools are notorious for making up publications!
- Pro tip: Instead of asking for the information directly, ask who collects the kind of information you're looking for. This will point you to reputable sources, rather than made up documents.
Idea Exploration/Evaluation
- Using AI as a sounding board to illuminate the pros/cons of your idea, proposal, or strategy. Asking directly for a strategy or response goes against the spirit of the assignment.
- Pro tip: ask the ai to act as a peer senior consultant with a valid but different approach than you are taking, and ask it to help you stress test your idea.
Editing
- Upload your originally written draft and ask for an edit for brevity, clarity, or tone.
- Pro tip: ask the tool to act as a specific audience segment, and point out things that would matter to different people (an investor vs a potenial employee)
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Unacceptable uses
(this is not an exhaustive list)
Assignment Generation
Generating a complete response to an assignment prompt. This goes against the point of the assignment and would be considered a violation of academic integrity.
Avoiding Technical Plagiarism
Copying and pasting text from various sources (even if you cite them!) and prompt an ai tool to summarize it. This is similar to assignment generation, and defeats the purpose of the assignment. We want to know what you think, not just what you can find.
Falsifying Data
generating "fake" or "sample" data to use in your analysis. As a means of practicing data analysis or visualization this would be an acceptable use, but it is not an appropriate basis for decisions in market, business, or industry analysis.
Watch out for Plagiarism
Quantic takes academic integrity very seriously—we define plagiarism as: “Knowingly representing the work of others as one’s own, engaging in any acts of plagiarism, or referencing the works of others without appropriate citation.” This includes both misusing or not using proper citations for the works referenced, and submitting someone else’s work as your own.