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Fall 2026

Generative AI Policy

You may use generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) to complete your homework assignments, but you must disclose your usage in the Collaboration and Originality section of your report. If you fail to disclose, even if you are just using it to polish English or make minor improvements to your software, it may be considered an academic integrity violation.

You must disclose which tools you used and how you used them.

Pro Tip: Students often say that they used generative AI to polish their English, but the ideas, analyses, and general structure were created by them. However, if one examines many reports that were written with GenAI help, it is clear that certain "thoughts" and expressions are more likely from GenAI than from the student. GenAI often guides a writer toward writing that is generic and superficial. This is what LLM's do - they produce the most likely (most common) text. The English is beautiful, but the content does not come across as original or thoughtful. The reader would rather hear your voice and ideas than ChatGPT's voice and ideas, even if the English is not perfect. Just FYI.


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