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At a recent Northeast Florida Libraries and Information Networks, (NEFLIN) librarian conference, keynote speaker Lee Rainey posed these questions:
What's the future of knowledge?
What's the future of reference expertise?
What's the future of public technology?
What's the future of learning spaces?
What's the future of community anchor institutions?
Generative AI can be used at many parts of the writing process, like brainstorming, drafting outlines, locating resources, grammar and language improvement, as well as creating new text and images. University and disciplinary guidelines as well as publisher policies require credit to be given when generative AI is utilized within a project. But when do you give credit?
Discussion among scholars on when and how to cite generative AI is ongoing and evolving. Proposed models range in detail, including simple acknowledgement statements or more intensive systems like the Artifical Intelligence Disclosure (AID) Framework, built on the CRediT system, that enumerates in detail when generative AI was used during each stage of an article (Weaver, 2024).
The International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers (STM) released a whitepaper in 2023 wherein they examined the uses and potential uses of generative AI in the scholarly communications cycle. Within they looked at several publisher policies for expectations on when credit or disclosure should be given and when use of generative AI was permitted. When using generative AI only as an editing support tool for formatting, grammar/spelling correction, etc. and not for adding generative AI created text to a paper, disclosure is not necessary in most cases.
Bethune-Cookman University Students are expected to abide by the B-CU Student Honor Code in all academic activities..As members of an academic community, which places a high value on truth and pursuit of knowledge, students are expected to be honest in every phase of their academic life and to present, as there own work, only that which is genuinely theirs. Students have the responsibility to maintain the highest standard of academic integrity and and to refrain from any form of academic dishonesty.
Academic dishonesty, such as cheating, plagiarism or other actions to create an unfair academic disadvantage for oneself or a disadvantage for another member or member of the academic community, antithetical to learning and inconsistent with the Institutional Core Values. Students who are academically dishonest undermine the integrity of the University. If students receive recognition , the value of the recognition is diminished if the student is accused of academic dishonesty. In such cases, the reputation of the university and its graduates are jeoprardized. Academic dishonesty hurts the university and is unfair to there students. A complete of academic dishonesty and disciplinary procedures and found in the B-CU Student Honor Code. Suspected violation of either a University policy on academic honesty or the instructor's specific cues, as found the the course syllabus, will be handled in accordance with the B-CU Honor Code.