Before using AI in assignments or with research, you must consider ethics and privacy.
Plagiarism
Plagiarism is when you use someone else's ideas and / or words and claim them as your own. It is a serious offence. It is important that you are an honest and responsible scholar and acknowledge the hardwork of authors when you use their ideas or research. When you use GenAI tools, it is difficult to know where the information they have created has come from. This is considered plagiarism and is not showing academic integrity. Please see the Using AI Responsibilty tab and APA Referencing guide.
Bias
AI is software that cannot tell if the information is accurate or not. It is only as good as the prompts you have used and the data it has been trained on. Therefore, bias can exist. It is your responsbility to check the ethics, the accuracy and the references of any information that has been AI generated. Please see the AI and Assignments and AI and Research tabs.
Access
Many AI tools are free to access, but many have either a premium version that cost money or have a subscription fee. This creates an inequity of access for those who cannot afford these charges.
Copyright
Do not upload journal articles or published content that comes from library databases, ebook collections, online journals, standards etc to AI. This is a breach of copyright as the library has agreed to terms and conditions of use for many of its e-resources. See the AI and Copyright tab.
Transparency
Whitireia and WelTec have Academic Integrity Procedures that state the work you hand in has to be your own. If you have used AI in any way, you may be asked to declare the AI tools you have used and provide evidence of how you have used it.
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Any information or data uploaded to AI could be shared or used to train its algorithms. Therefore it is important that you do not upload your personal information or any personal information of case studies or research participants to AI.
See Health New Zealand's information on Large Language Models and Generative AI advice in a healthcare setting and the Office of the Prime Minister's Chief Science Advisor Why is regulating AI such a challenge?
Allows you to use popular GenAI tools, like ChatGPT, Claude, Llama and Mixtral, while protecting your privacy. Your inputs are not used as training data, and the chats are private and anonymous.
[Source: Wintec Academic Integrity: Using AI tools for assignments]
Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence for Health: Large Multi-Modal Models. WHO Guidance by 
