Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Review your course syllabus for guidelines on AI usage.  If needed, seek clarification from your professor or program.  When AI use is permitted, consider the suggestions below.

• To cite the informational generated by AI, the recommendation is to specify the following:  
  • The prompt you used 
  • The AI text response

Important! If AI connects you to another resource, you need to cite that resource too.

Apply the appropriate Association's suggestions for citing ChatGPT and AI for in-text citations and Bibliography/Reference/Works Cited pages.

While the  American Psychological Association (APA) has not released official guidelines on citing generative AI yet, the recent post on the APA Style Blog provides guidance on citing ChatGPT adaptable to other AI tools. 

In-text example: 

(OpenAI, 2023)

Reference example: 

OpenAI (2023). ChatGPT (May 24 version) [Large language model]. https://chat.openai.com/chat

The Chicago Manual of Style provides guidance for citing ChatGPT and generative AI tools in their online Q&A. See this linked example.   

Note example: 
1. Text generated by ChatGPT, May 24, 2023, OpenAI. https://chat.openai.com/ 
 
Bibliography example: 
OpenAI. Text generated by ChatGPT, Version GPT-3.5. Accessed May 24, 2023. https://chat.openai.com/chat

MLA provides preliminary guidance for citing information produced by generative AI. Writers should not credit the AI as an author. The description of the AI generated content should be treated as the title of the source, as if it were an article or chapter title. 

In-text example:

While the green light in The Great Gatsby might be said to chiefly symbolize four main things: optimism, the unattainability of the American dream, greed, and covetousness (“Describe the symbolism”), arguably the most important—the one that ties all four themes together—is greed.

Works Cited entry example:

“Describe the symbolism of the green light in the book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald” prompt. ChatGPT, 13 Feb. version, OpenAI, 8 Mar. 2023, chat.openai.com/chat.