## Output AI tools

The use of AI during your studies is not always permitted. Each faculty has its own rules about what is and is not allowed. Always check the course manual for your subject before using AI for an assignment or paper.

AI tools such as ChatGPT and Copilot are useful tools for quickly finding information on a specific topic. It is important to be critical about the information that is generated:

- You do not know which sources have been used and cannot verify whether the information is correct. When you ask ChatGPT for sources, they are often fabricated.
- A tool is only as good as the data it is trained on, and that data may also contain incorrect or outdated information.
- AI tools often have limited access to scientific sources, and often do not have access to the most recent publications.
- No one checks the quality of AI-generated text; you have to do that yourself.

You must check the information you find against other sources. You should refer to these original sources in your paper.

In addition to reliability, transparency is also an important scientific value. The results of AI cannot be found by other users of the tool. Because GenAI always gives a different output, even when you use the same prompt/input, the results cannot be reproduced by others.

There may be reasons to use AI anyway. In the section “Referencing the use of AI tools”, you will find guidelines on how to make it clear in your paper that you have used an AI tool.

Tip: Treat AI output as an external source. Check and rewrite in your own words, citing the source where necessary.