Generative artificial intelligence (GAI)

This section explains how and when you’re allowed to use GAI and how and when you’re not allowed to use GAI. It also covers what you must do if you use GAI.

• The main rule is that you are allowed to use GAI if your academic regulations or the course catalogue doesn’t explicitly state that using GAI is not allowed.
   
• What’s more, the university’s rules about academic cheating and plagiarism also apply to papers and assignments where you use GAI. Check the rules here.To be more specific, under these rules, you’re allowed to use GAI as a dialogue partner. But you’re not allowed to use GAI to do your exam project for you.
   
• If you use part of a text or another output generated by a GAI application in your exam project without changing it, you must cite it in the same way you cite quotations from other secondary sources (Read the rules on citations here).
   
• If you use GAI in your exam project, you must submit a declaration that contains the following: 1) confirmation you used GAI, 2) the name of the GAI applications you used (ChatGPT, Copilot, Bing etc. and 3) an explanation of how you used the applications in your paper.
  
  You must submit the declaration as an attachment when you submit your exam project if you use GAI. To write your declaration, fill out the AU template you’ll find here. Unless you refer to your use of GAI in the methodology section of your paper, your declaration and your description of how you used GAI in the exam project will not be part of your grade. 
   
• In on-site exams where GAI is allowed, you are not required to submit a declaration.
   
• Never upload confidential or sensitive personal data (in other words, data covered by the GDPR rules) to a GAI application: you can’t be sure what will happen to the texts you upload. Make sure you understand the data protection rules, and follow them.