Plagiarism and Copyright
While at NTU we are trying to ensure AI is incorporated into your studies, blindly using content generated by AI tools into your assessed work may lead to hidden plagiarism, as Turnitin could identify matches between its own database of content and the GenAI content. GenAI tools give the impression that they are creating new and “original” content. They are combining pre-existing authored content, and providing either inaccurate references, or no references at all, to the original sources.
You should also be aware of copyright implications when using GenAI tools. For example, uploading an article or book chapter to a GenAI tool and asking it to summarise the text for you, would currently be classed as a breach of copyright law. There are similar copyright concerns in relation to using images ‘created’ by GenAI tools, due to the original images being harvested without the creators’ consent or licence.
The use of generative AI must be acknowledged in an any piece of work where it has been used as a functional tool to assist in the process of creating any type of work (written, audio or visual). You should be provided with the opportunity to declare how you have used AI for any formal submission on the assessment cover sheet. Please speak with you Module Leader about this if you don’t have this option. As a rule of thumb, the minimum requirement to include in acknowledgement:
- Name of the generative AI system used; e.g. Copilot
- Publisher (company that made the AI system); e.g. Microsoft
- URL of the AI system.
- Brief description of context in which the tool was used.