Not all professors allow GAIT use, and even those who do may not allow it for all assignments. First, check the syllabus and any Academic Integrity policies to see if GAIT use is allowed. When in doubt, ask your professor directly!
In this course, the use of Generative AI is permissible only under specific circumstances, as outlined in the assignment instructions. When AI tool usage is allowed, exercise caution and ensure that you appropriately cite and attribute any content generated through their use. It is essential to strike a balance between leveraging the advantages of AI resources and preserving your individual creativity and problem-solving abilities. Failure to adhere to the specified Generative AI usage guidelines may result in academic consequences. Pay careful attention to the assignment requirements to determine whether AI tools are permitted and follow the instructions accordingly.
The usefulness of GAITs is entirely dependent on the prompt(s) used. Good prompts are not easy to create - they require revision and the correct details. The resources below explain ways to create good prompts.
Generative AIs don't "understand" their output, and they hallucinate, or make things up. In order to use GAITs effectively and ethically, you must evaluate their responses for accuracy.
One way to do this is to use lateral reading, described in the below video, to fact check the GAIT.
Ethical GAIT use requires citations, just as any source used in an assignment. Each of the different citation styles have a designated way to cite GAIT use.
Your professor may want you to document the ways in which you used GAITs, or they may want a transcript of your conversations with the GAIT.
Without citations or other documentation, GAIT use is likely to be considered plagiarism, cheating, or academic dishonesty.
According to the MLA
"You should
Works Cited Format
"Title of Source." Title of Container, Version, Publisher, Date, URL.
Example Works Cited
“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.
In-Text Example
(“Describe the symbolism”)
According to the APA:
" Author: The author of the model is OpenAI.
Date: The date is the year of the version you used. Following the template in Section 10.10, you need to include only the year, not the exact date. The version number provides the specific date information a reader might need.
Title: The name of the model is “ChatGPT,” so that serves as the title and is italicized in your reference, as shown in the template...
The version number is included after the title in parentheses. The format for the version number in ChatGPT references includes the date because that is how OpenAI is labeling the versions. Different large language models or software might use different version numbering; use the version number in the format the author or publisher provides, which may be a numbering system (e.g., Version 2.0) or other methods.
Bracketed text is used in references for additional descriptions when they are needed to help a reader understand what’s being cited. … In the case of a reference for ChatGPT, provide the descriptor “Large language model” in square brackets. OpenAI describes ChatGPT-4 as a “large multimodal model,” so that description may be provided instead if you are using ChatGPT-4. Later versions and software or models from other companies may need different descriptions, based on how the publishers describe the model. The goal of the bracketed text is to briefly describe the kind of model to your reader.
Source: When the publisher name and the author name are the same, do not repeat the publisher name in the source element of the reference, and move directly to the URL. This is the case for ChatGPT. The URL for ChatGPT is https://chat.openai.com/chat. For other models or products for which you may create a reference, use the URL that links as directly as possible to the source (i.e., the page where you can access the model, not the publisher’s homepage)."
Example Citations
OpenAI. (2023). ChatGPT (Mar 14 version) [Large language model]. https://chat.openai.com/chat
The Chicago Manual of Style advises:
"If you need a more formal citation—for example, for a student paper or for a research article—a numbered footnote or endnote might look like this:
1. Text generated by ChatGPT, OpenAI, March 7, 2023, https://chat.openai.com/chat.
ChatGPT stands in as “author” of the content, and OpenAI (the company that developed ChatGPT) is the publisher or sponsor, followed by the date the text was generated. After that, the URL tells us where the ChatGPT tool may be found, but because readers can’t necessarily get to the cited content (see below), that URL isn’t an essential element of the citation.
If the prompt hasn’t been included in the text, it can be included in the note:
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”).
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But don’t cite ChatGPT in a bibliography or reference list unless you provide a publicly available link (e.g., via a browser extension like ShareGPT or A.I. Archives). Though OpenAI assigns unique URLs to conversations generated from your prompts, those can’t be used by others to access the same content (they require your login credentials), making a ChatGPT conversation like an email, phone, or text conversation—or any other type of personal communication (see CMOS 14.214 and 15.53)."
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