AU has general guidelines for students’ use of generative AI. For students at the Department of Psychology, we have established some additional rules for its use.
Generative AI includes all text‑producing systems. This refers to systems that generate new, coherent text based on prompts provided by the user.
The most important requirement is that the use of generative AI must be transparent. As a student, you must specify which systems you have used and for what purpose.
There will be exams in the psychology degree programme where the use of generative AI is not permitted, as well as some where the instructor has set specific requirements for its use. In the course catalogue, you can find the rules for using generative AI in the exam for that particular course.
To provide some examples of how you can describe your use of generative AI, we have collected sample excerpts from methodology sections.
In exams where generative AI is permitted, it is a requirement at the Department of Psychology that students state in their exam assignment whether they have used generative AI . You must indicate both if you have not used generative AI and, if you have used it, how you have used it. In the psychology degree programme, this is sufficient to meet AU’s requirement that the use of generative AI must be declared, cf. AU’s guidelines at https://studerende.au.dk/en/gai.
As a supplement to this statement in the assignment, you have the option of uploading a declaration (see the template available at the link above) with a more detailed description of your use of generative AI, without using space in the assignment itself. This declaration is optional and is not included in the assessment of the assignment, as it is not an academic product but an administrative record documenting your use of generative AI.
We distinguish between three overall levels of use:
Translation and linguistic editing
Text suggestions that you subsequently revise and rewrite
Text you use directly in your assignment
You may, for example, describe your use of generative AI as follows:
“No generative AI has been used in the preparation of this assignment.”
“In this assignment, Bard was used for proofreading and linguistic improvements.”
“In this assignment, ChatGPT was used to discuss perspectives on theory X using prompts xxx. [add a description of your prompt‑based workflow]”
Describe this under the heading “Use of Generative AI” at the beginning of the assignment.
If generative AI is used in assignments or exam papers, you must follow the APA standard for referencing such use. This means:
Text that is directly generated by generative AI must be presented as a quotation with a source reference to the generative AI platform.
Text that is rewritten or produced on the basis of output from generative AI must include a source reference to the generative AI platform.
See descriptions of how to cite generative AI here:
Never use generative AI for classified, sensitive, confidential and/or personal information
You must never submit any classified, sensitive, confidential and/or personal information to generative AI platforms. If it appears from your exam submission that you have done so, the submission cannot be assessed and will be rejected due to non‑compliance with formal requirements.
Please note that it is permitted to use the AI‑based tools Whisper or Transcriber for automatic transcription of interview data, provided that UCloud is used. See the guidelines here:
https://library.au.dk/en/students/bss-datalab
Cheating at exams
It is considered cheating if you:
fail to provide a source reference for your use of generative AI
use generative AI in exam formats where it is not permitted
Familiarise yourself with the rules to avoid cheating at exams.