SLIS AI Policy is dependent on the nature and focus of its curriculum in any given course. Please check each course syllabus to review which AI policy below has been selected by the course instructor.

AI Use Prohibited

This course assumes that work submitted by students—all process work, drafts, low-stakes writing, final versions, and all other submissions—will be generated by the students themselves, working individually or in
groups. This means that the following would be considered violations of academic integrity: a student has another person/entity do the writing of any substantive portion of an assignment for them, which includes hiring a person or a company to write essays and drafts and/or other assignments, research-based or otherwise, and using artificial intelligence affordances like ChatGPT. (Excerpted from ChatGPT by University of California: Irvine Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation)

AI Allowed With Attribution

Students can use AI platforms to help prepare for assignments and projects (e.g., to help with brainstorming or to see what a completed essay might look like). Students may also use AI tools to help revise and edit work (e.g., to help identify flaws in reasoning, spot confusing or underdeveloped paragraphs). Please note: Do not use AI-generated citations as these are often invented by AI. To be consistent with our scholarly values, students must cite any AI-generated material that informed their work and use quotation marks or other appropriate indicators of quoted material when appropriate. Students should indicate how AI tools informed their process and the final product. Assignment guidelines, when applicable, will provide additional guidance as to how these tools might be part of your process and how to provide transparency about their use in your work.