Using AI can help streamline your research experience but you should NEVER use someone else's work as your own, that includes AI!
See the videos below for more info on avoiding Academic Dishonesty and Copyright Infringement.
A process that protects a creator's ideas from being used without their permission
Process of copying or using someone else's protected works or ideas and claim they're your own. Especially with the goal of making profit off the work.
Process that allows the use of parts of copyrighted works for educational or review purposes. Examples include using items in class or parts for a review/critique of the work.
A created (usually written) work that was created before 1930 that is now free for anyone to use without permission.
the practice of providing (usually) unrestricted, free access to scholarly research materials like journal articles, conference papers, theses, and datasets—via the internet.
Copyrighted Materials that are useable with proper attribution (depending on the license on the material)
"Hallucinations" are incorrect or misleading answers and statements given by an AI model that is said with confidence or certainty. These hallucinations are given because the AI has been fed misleading or incorrect information and citations that it uses to try to justify its false statements.
Because AI models are trained with LLMs, it is possible for people to feed them incorrect or misleading information. Therefore, it's vital to never trust AI-generated information without double-checking it. Hallucinations used in research can result in great embarrassment and even count as a form of academic dishonesty (lying on your papers) since it involves using fabricated sources. As you do with any source you'd like to use in your research, thoroughly double check their validity.
Some Examples of Hallucinations:
Air Canada loses lawsuit after lying AI Chatbot case
AI-Generated fake book reading list published by newspaper
LLMs can be bad with math problems since they can't compute the steps but only project what Seems like a suitable answer:
Once again, AI Generated answers should not be blindly trusted and should be vetted and reviewed
Stealing someone else's writing and passing it off as your own.
Writing down other's ideas and answers verbatim
Using tools to intentionally find and use answers on your work
Purposefully copying someone's work without their knowledge is still cheating on your part!
Having someone else do the work assignment for you
Using someone else' work without giving appropriate credit or citations. Can happened on accident if you forget to cite or incorrectly cite other's ideas!
Turning in previous work/writing samples for a current assignment.
Copyright Infringement is the process of using someone else's Copyright-protected work for the purpose of gaining wealth, fame, or any other benefit WITHOUT their permission. This includes using a copyright protected work obtain via AI usage.
Copyright Infringement is a form of Academic Dishonesty and you can be punished by your School if caught.
See the video below for the best ways to avoid this while researching:
