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- The school defines AI-related misuse as academic misconduct when students present AI-generated work as their own or use AI to falsify or fabricate academic materials
- This applies to academic work generally and prohibits both undisclosed substitution of AI output for student work and deceptive generation or alteration of materials
Misrepresentation of Content and Authorship: The use of original content generated by artificial intelligence and claimed by a student to be the student’s own work or creation is considered plagiarism. Students are expected to articulate and use their own thoughts and words, and to give proper acknowledgment of the words and ideas of others.
Unethical Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI): The use of AI to generate, alter, or falsify academic materials, data, or source materials in a manner that constitutes fraud, misrepresentation, or deception is considered a violation of academic integrity.
Academic Integrity
- Students must give proper acknowledgment when using others’ words and ideas, and AI-generated original content cannot be claimed as the student's own work
- The policy establishes an attribution expectation in the context of authorship and plagiarism, but it does not provide a specific AI citation format or disclosure statement requirement
Misrepresentation of Content and Authorship: The use of original content generated by artificial intelligence and claimed by a student to be the student’s own work or creation is considered plagiarism. Students are expected to articulate and use their own thoughts and words, and to give proper acknowledgment of the words and ideas of others.
- Sanctions may range from educational remedies to failure, suspension, or expulsion depending on severity and prior history
- AI-related misuse is treated as a violation of academic integrity and is subject to the school's academic misconduct process
Academic misconduct is any act or attempted act of plagiarism, cheating, misrepresentation, fraud or deception related to the completion of academic work.
Unethical Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI): The use of AI to generate, alter, or falsify academic materials, data, or source materials in a manner that constitutes fraud, misrepresentation, or deception is considered a violation of academic integrity.
Responses to Academic Misconduct
When academic misconduct occurs, the School may consider sanctions to include: requiring an academic integrity tutorial or educational intervention, resubmission of assignment/ examination and/or a reduction in grade, fail grade for the assignment/examination/course, academic probation, suspension or expulsion.
Institutional & Administrative
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Common Questions About Manhattan School of Music's AI Policies
Manhattan School of Music has defined AI policies in 3 of 12 categories, with an overall coverage score of 25%.
Students must give proper acknowledgment when using others’ words and ideas, and AI-generated original content cannot be claimed as the student's own work. The policy establishes an attribution expectation in the context of authorship and plagiarism, but it does not provide a specific AI citation format or disclosure statement requirement.
AI-related misuse is treated as a violation of academic integrity and is subject to the school's academic misconduct process. Sanctions may range from educational remedies to failure, suspension, or expulsion depending on severity and prior history.
No explicit data protection or approved AI platform policy is currently defined in the available policy sources.