Citing AI-Generated Content
Many publishers are requiring that you identify and cite content developed or generated by artificial intelligence, such as ChatGPT? They human authors to take responsibility for it and will not permit the AI to have “authorship.”
How do you identify and cite content developed or generated by AI tools?
Writing - general information
For most types of writing, you can simply acknowledge the AI tool in the body of your text:
- Example: “The following recipe for pizza dough was generated by ChatGPT
Writing - for student paper or for a research articl
- Notes Style
- If the prompt hasn’t been included in the text, it can be included in the note (endnote or footnote):
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Example: 1. ChatGPT, response to “Explain how to make pizza dough from common household ingredients,” OpenAI, March 7, 2023.
- If you’ve edited the AI-generated text, you should say so in the text or at the end of the note (e.g., “edited for style and content”).
- Author-Date Style
- any information not in the text would be placed in a parenthetical text reference. For example, “(ChatGPT, March 7, 2023).”
- Bibliography or Reference
- don't ChatGPT in a bibliography or reference list unless you provide a publicly available URL such as for ShareGPT - https://sharegpt.com or A.I. Archives https://aiarchives.org/
- OpenAI assigns unique URLs to conversations generated from your prompts, BUT they can’t be used by others to access the same content you did because require your login credentials. \
To sum things up:
- you must credit AI-generated text when you reproduce its words within your own work, but unless you include a publicly available URL, that information should be put in the body of your text or in a note (foortnote orendnote) —not in a bibliography or reference list.
