Fabrication or falsification involves the unauthorized creation or alteration of information in an academic document or activity.

Examples of fabrication or falsification include the following:

Artificially creating data when it should be collected from an actual experiment
Unauthorized altering or falsification of data, documents, images, music, art or other work
Unauthorized omission of data, information, or results in documents, reports and presentations
Hiding data, results, or information using inappropriate scales, magnification and representation in charts, graphs and other forms of representation
Falsifying information pertaining to the subjects participating in an experiment
Falsely recruiting subjects for experiments without revealing the purpose of the experiments or receiving institutional approval for involving subjects in the experiment
Fabricating data, images, audio, video, and/or text using generative artificial intelligence (such as ChatGPT)
Unauthorized impersonation of another person to complete an academic activity
Unauthorized use of another individual's computer login ID and password
Unapproved deviation from a predetermined experimental procedure