Carleton College provides students with a guide to “Plagiarism and AI.” It contains some sample scenarios to help students (and faculty) think through the thorny question of whether particular uses of AI may constitute plagiarism or a violation of academic integrity. Here is an example:
- A student is extremely insecure about their grammar or writing style. So, for an essay in their History class, they feed their draft into an AI tool that promises to “tune” their language to make it more formal and academic. The tool makes several dozen changes to the punctuation, sentence structure, and phrasing throughout the draft, returning a new version of the essay that reads to the student as a more polished version of the essay they wrote. The student then submits the AI-polished version of the essay to their instructor with no additional changes on their part.
The document does not provide a judgment about the scenario. It is designed to foster thought and dialogue. You may find some of these scenarios useful for your conversations with students about the use of generative AI. |
