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11 # University of Southampton AI policy diff
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33 This claim was newly extracted or newly promoted in the tracker release. It is not necessarily newly published by the university.
4+ai_tool_treatment: University of Southampton guidance says students are allowed to use GenAI tools like ChatGPT to develop learning and support studies, but should never submit work created or part-created by GenAI for assessments they claim as their own.
5+Evidence (en-GB, 92bf7b3a1003): You are allowed to use GenAI tools like ChatGPT to develop your learning and support your studies. However, you should never submit work that has been created or part-created by GenAI for assessments that you claim as your own work.
6+Tracker checked at: 2026-05-13T14:05:00Z
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58 This claim was newly extracted or newly promoted in the tracker release. It is not necessarily newly published by the university.
9+academic_integrity: University of Southampton guidance says submitting work created by someone other than the student, including GenAI, breaks its Academic Responsibility and Conduct rules and the University will take disciplinary action that may result in mark penalties.
10+Evidence (en-GB, 92bf7b3a1003): Work submitted as your own should genuinely be your own work. If you submit work that has been created by someone other than yourself (including GenAI), then this breaks our rules on Academic Responsibility and Conduct. We will take disciplinary action that may result in penalties on your marks.
11+Tracker checked at: 2026-05-13T14:05:00Z
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713 This claim was newly extracted or newly promoted in the tracker release. It is not necessarily newly published by the university.
14+teaching: University of Southampton guidance tells students to talk to their module tutor about how to use GenAI; the permitted extent and ways of use depend on the task, learning, and capabilities expected, and some activities may require a GenAI declaration statement.
15+Evidence (en-GB, 92bf7b3a1003): Always talk to your module tutor to check how to use GenAI to support your studies in their subjects. How far, and in what ways, you can use generative AI will depend on the particular task or learning you are carrying out and what capabilities you are expected to demonstrate. In other cases, you may be asked to complete a declaration statement that describes how you have used generative AI.
16+Tracker checked at: 2026-05-13T14:05:00Z
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918 This claim was newly extracted or newly promoted in the tracker release. It is not necessarily newly published by the university.
19+ai_tool_treatment: University of Southampton guidance lists acceptable GenAI uses such as arranged assistive technology, study-buddy support, clearly referencing GenAI use, and summarising complex ideas or academic texts; it lists copying GenAI output into work, asking GenAI to write or rewrite work, asking GenAI to answer an assessment question, and sharing module tutor materials in a GenAI tool as unacceptable uses.
20+Evidence (en-GB, 92bf7b3a1003): Acceptable uses include: using GenAI as an assistive technology by arrangement with our Disability and Inclusion team; using GenAI as a study buddy; citing or clearly referencing your use of GenAI; summarising complex ideas or academic texts. Unacceptable uses include: copying and pasting information created by GenAI straight into your work; asking GenAI to write or rewrite your work or part of your work for you; directly asking GenAI to answer an assessment question; sharing the materials and resources from your module tutors in a GenAI tool.
21+Tracker checked at: 2026-05-13T14:05:00Z
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1123 This claim was newly extracted or newly promoted in the tracker release. It is not necessarily newly published by the university.
24+ai_tool_treatment: University of Southampton guidance says students and staff currently have access to the generative AI tool Copilot within Microsoft Office365.
25+Evidence (en-GB, 92bf7b3a1003): Student and members of staff currently have access to the generative AI tool CoPilot within Microsoft Office365.
26+Tracker checked at: 2026-05-13T14:05:00Z
1227 ## Newly extracted tracker claim
1328 This claim was newly extracted or newly promoted in the tracker release. It is not necessarily newly published by the university.
29+privacy: University of Southampton Library guidance warns students to check GenAI privacy settings because prompt data may be incorporated into training data, including personal or confidential data; before using a GenAI tool, students should also consider privacy and copyright and ensure they have rights for content they input.
30+Evidence (en-GB, 3f3bfaa78236): Privacy: always check the privacy settings to check what data the GenAI tool is collecting. You may find that anything you enter as a prompt is incorporated into the training data, including any personal or confidential data that you provide. Before using a GenAI tool, consider: Privacy... Copyright: Ensure you have the rights to use the content you're inputting.
31+Tracker checked at: 2026-05-13T14:06:05Z
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34+Source https://library.soton.ac.uk/sash/generative-ai snapshot 3f3bfaa78236641ef0c9c481e9a922e9aefc6cdc104c6017764370b22805ecf4
35+Tracker checked at: 2026-05-13T14:06:05Z
1636 ## Source attribution added
1737 An official source attribution was added to the tracker record.
38+Source https://www.southampton.ac.uk/about/governance/regulations-policies/policies/using-gen-ai-during-your-studies snapshot 92bf7b3a10035a5b5aee80e011e9ac87d4b9bac923d9c7dcc486b6d034798625
39+Tracker checked at: 2026-05-13T14:05:00Z
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