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  "content": "---\ntitle: \"Academic integrity guidelines re: ChatGPT and generative AI tools\"\ndescription: \"Draft guidelines for allowing ChatGPT in university coursework while\n  maintaining academic integrity, with citation and accountability requirements.\"\ntags:\n  - teaching\n  - ai\n---\n\nHere in Australia Semester 1 is approaching and\n[ChatGPT](https://chat.openai.com) is, undoubtedly, _a thing_. From a practical\nperspective it's important to have some​ sort of guidelines about ChatGPT\nand other generative AI tools in the classroom\n([everyone's doing it](https://twitter.com/dbkahn/status/1616494433587040257)).\nIf you don't provide any advice ahead of time you'll end up making it up as you\ngo along (because it _will_ come up), and\n[policy on the run is policy underdone](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XeQin9abx4).\n\nIn terms of the opportunities to incorporate, explore and critique new tools in\nthe classroom, I'm actually kindof excited.\n[I've written elsewhere about how you might be able to do this](https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/so-you-want-use-chatgpt-classroom-semester).\nThe _tl;dr_ is that you should look at your class activities (including\nassessment items) and try and actually _do_ them with ChatGPT, just to see how\nit goes. OpenAI have also just released some stuff about\n[considerations for educators](https://platform.openai.com/docs/chatgpt-education).\n\n:::tip\n\nAt this stage these are just my own personal thoughts as a teaching academic;\nI'm not wearing my\n[Associate Director (Education)](https://cybernetics.anu.edu.au/people/ben-swift/)\nhat here, and **this is not an official (or unofficial) ANU School of\nCybernetics policy**. If you're also putting together some guidelines for your\nown classroom, then questions/comments/suggesions are welcome---do\n[get in touch](mailto:ben.swift@anu.edu.au).\n\n:::\n\nHere are my current thoughts on what some good _use of ChatGPT in the classroom_\nguidelines might look like. It doesn't have everything precisely defined, but it\ngives you an idea of how I want to run my classes, balancing the opportunities\nand challenges these tools present for student learning.\n\n1. Unless otherwise specified, you **are** allowed to use\n   ChatGPT[^other-similar-tools] in this class, including in work submitted for\n   assessment.\n\n2. Wherever ChatGPT is used it must be cited according to the\n   [OpenAI citation instructions](https://platform.openai.com/docs/chatgpt-education/disclosing-the-use-of-chatgpt).[^attribution]\n\n3. You are responsible for everything you submit. \"It's not my fault---the AI\n   generated text introduced non-sequiturs/errors/plagiarised text/offensive\n   language\" will never get you off the hook; if it's in your submission you're\n   responsible for it just as you would be if you'd written it without ChatGPT.\n\n4. You are expected to be able to explain (to your tutor, lecturer or course\n   convenor) any assessment submission to demonstrate your understanding of the\n   concepts being assessed.\n\n5. Any violations of the above will be considered a potential breach of academic\n   integrity under clause 9 of section 12(2) of the\n   [ANU Academic Integrity Rule](#appendix-anu-academic-integrity-rule)\n   \"improperly recycles work or otherwise improperly submits or publishes work\n   that is not original\" (**note**: I'm unsure on which clause is best to use\n   here---could be clause 8, could be one of the others as well).\n\n6. No \"is-this-written-by-an-AI?\"​ detection tools (e.g.\n   [this](https://openai.com/blog/new-ai-classifier-for-indicating-ai-written-text/))\n   will be used as part of the marking process.\n\n[^other-similar-tools]:\n    Wherever ChatGPT is named in these guidelines it should be read as \"ChatGPT\n    and other generative AI tools\", where those tools are defined according to\n    (ERROR: definition not found). Any guidelines which are restrict themselves\n    to specific AI tools by name are doomed to become out of date real fast.\n\n[^attribution]:\n    These guidelines deliberately doesn't try to address the (important) issue\n    of AI tools and the way they appropriate the skilled labour of the millions\n    of individuals who created, edited and labelled the data on which they were\n    trained.\n\nOne open question (not necessarily part of the student-facing guidelines, but\nrelevant for anyone running a course) is what guidance should be given to the\nmarkers (e.g. tutors/TAs) on what to do when marking ChatGPT-generated content.\nShould submissions created with the help of ChatGPT be marked lower than\n\"equivalent standard\" (whatever that means) submissions that aren't?\n\nAnyway, these are just some draft thoughts---I'll keep this post updated as my\nthinking changes.\n\n## Appendix: ANU Academic Integrity Rule {#appendix-anu-academic-integrity-rule}\n\nFrom the\n[ANU Academic Integrity Rule 2021](https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/F2021L00997/Html/Text#_Toc73961519)\nSection 12 (2), here's the list of what constitutes a breach of the academic\nintegrity principle.\n\n> (2) For this instrument, a student breaches the academic integrity principle\n> if, in scholarly practice, the student:\n>\n> a. cheats; or\n>\n> b. impersonates another person; or\n>\n> c. engages in plagiarism; or\n>\n> d. colludes with another person; or\n>\n> e. improperly shares material with another person; or\n>\n> f. engages in contract cheating or improperly engages another person to\n> prepare, or assist in preparing, work for the student; or\n>\n> g. submits or publishes anything that fails to correctly or appropriately\n> acknowledge the work of another person or otherwise improperly appropriates\n> the intellectual property or contribution of another person; or\n>\n> h. otherwise passes off the work of another person as the student's own work;\n> or\n>\n> i. improperly recycles work or otherwise improperly submits or publishes work\n> that is not original; or\n>\n> j. takes a prohibited item into an examination or other assessment venue or\n> otherwise breaches the University's directions (however described) in relation\n> to an examination or other assessment; or\n>\n> k. fabricates or falsifies any document, data or other information, or\n> anything else, including, for example, by intentionally omitting data to\n> obtain a desired result, or by falsely representing observations as genuinely\n> held; or\n>\n> l. otherwise intentionally or recklessly engages in conduct:\n>\n> - that impedes the progress of research; or\n> - that risks corrupting research records or compromising the integrity of\n>   research practices; or\n> - that uses research data from another person without appropriate\n>   acknowledgement; or\n> - that breaches a research protocol approved by a research ethics committee or\n>   a statutory licence condition applying to research; or\n>\n> m. otherwise engages in conduct with the intention of gaining, or assisting\n> another person to gain, an unethical, dishonest, unfair or unjustified\n> advantage; or\n>\n> n. otherwise engages in conduct, or assists another person to engage in\n> conduct, that is unethical, dishonest or unfair; or\n>\n> o. engages in any other conduct declared to be academic misconduct by the\n> orders.\n\nMy commentary on the above (and IANAL) is that none of those points really\ncapture the specific case of \"ChatGPT wrote this essay, not the student\", in\nparticular because so many of the definitions reference \"of another _person_\".\nI'm sure this language will be updated in the future in light of the widespread\navailability of generative AI tools.\n",
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  "description": "Draft guidelines for allowing ChatGPT in university coursework while maintaining academic integrity, with citation and accountability requirements.",
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  "textContent": "Draft guidelines for allowing ChatGPT in university coursework while maintaining academic integrity, with citation and accountability requirements.",
  "title": "Academic integrity guidelines re: ChatGPT and generative AI tools"
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