Artificial Intelligence (AI) Tools and Resources

Generative Ai tools such as Copilot or Chat GPT has several unique qualities that make it different than all other sources: it’s open-sourced and continuously changing. When you ask an Ai tool a question, it generates a new and novel response each time, meaning that someone who reads your paper citing an Ai tool cannot search for and read your original source. This leaves an ethical dilemma for academic scholarship, as scholarly writing and citations depend on retrievable sources.

Because of these factors, extra steps should be taken when citing the Ai-generated text: an (1) in-line signal phrase introducing the usage of the specific Ai tool and an (2) appendix with the copied text.

1. In-line signal phrase: refer to the usage of a Generative Ai in your paragraph that applies its content. If you use any text directly from the Ai program, you must properly quote it by using quotation marks.

Here is an example of how we might describe the content ChatGPT gave us on Freud:

When asked “Why is Freud important to psychology?”, the ChatGPT conversation explained that Freud contributed much to the development of many frequently used theories, including that he “provided a framework for understanding the different aspects of human behavior, motivation, and emotion” (OpenAI, 2023).

2. Appendix: copy and paste the entire text generated by the Ai tool into an Appendix at the end of your paper. Refer to this paper when you discuss the section or paraphrase of the full-text in the parenthetical citation like so:

When asked “Why is Freud important to psychology?”, the ChatGPT conversation explained that Freud contributed much to the development of many frequently used theories, including that he “provided a framework for understanding the different aspects of human behavior, motivation, and emotion” (OpenAI, 2023; see Appendix A for the full transcript).