Cheating and Plagiarism
When you cheat, you learn less: When cheating, you do not exercise your philosophical skills, you do not engage with philosophical material, the feedback you receive is irrelevant to your skills and understanding, and your teacher cannot assess whether your skills and understanding suffice to go further in your studies. And you have taken credit for an achievement that is not yours. Cheating is a serious academic offense that can lead to suspension, and any suspicion of cheating will be investigated according to the university's rules on deceptive conduct.
Therefore you are responsible for understanding what constitutes cheating (including plagiarism) and are responsible for avoiding it. In particular, you have to be familiar with this page and the page on cheating and plagiarism in the student gateway. That page links to further resources, as does a module of the Department of Philosophy's resource Tools for Philosophy.
As far as cheating and plagiarism are concerned, the Department of Philosophy makes no distinction between texts you have automatically generated (e.g. with ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot) and texts written for you by someone else. This holds both for longer texts, for instance essays, and shorter texts, for instance those generated in a dialogue.
This entails in particular that it is plagiarism to
- copy automatically generated texts without citation
- rewrite automatically generated texts without reference
- use automatically generated content without acknowledgement
just as it is plagiarism to copy or rewrite regular texts without citation or pass off someone else's ideas as your own.
If you are unsure whether something would constitute cheating, ask the teacher of the course.