The departmental policy aligns with the Charles University guidelines. These guidelines (among other provisions) advise students to follow their teachers’ recommendations in the use of generative AI within the academic setting. In this sense, we ask all the students to employ the generative AI responsibly and transparently when submitting their coursework or theses at the department.
It is crucial to understand that generative AI is a tool, not a co-author (it carries no responsibility) nor does it qualify as a citable secondary source (unless you are specifically analysing its output or using it as part of your research methodology e.g. to classify items).
The emphasis in our courses remains on fostering the capability to learn from, comprehend, and compose texts, which not only embody the core objectives of our teaching, but may also be part of your assessment.
Unless otherwise specified by their instructors or supervisors, we ask all our students submitting their coursework/theses (in which they used generative AI tools) to assume complete responsibility for the final text ensuring that the tools employed have not incorporated any ideas that did not originate from those submitting or from properly cited sources and declare the use of generative AI as follows:
„In preparation of my paper/thesis, I have used [NAME OF GENERATIVE AI TOOL including model version & date] for the purposes of [DESCRIPTION OF USE]. After using this tool/service, I have reviewed and edited the text as needed and take full responsibility for its content.“
* Generative AI is an artificial intelligence capable of generating text, images, or other media, using generative models and in a form of a computer tool or service (such as GPT, Bard or Copilot, see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_artificial_intelligence).
