Making the most of Generative AI (ChatGPT etc.)

Citation and Attribution

If you decide to incorporate generative AI tools into your assignments, academic projects, or any written work you plan to publish, it's crucial to carefully consider how you give credit to and cite the results generated by these tools in your content. Make sure to consult with your instructor before integrating AI into your coursework to ensure compliance with guidelines and expectations.

Citing Generative AI: APA

Citing Generative AI: Chicago

Use with caution: Hallucinations may occur

Generative AI has a tendency to hallucinate, particularly academic citations. That means that when asked to generate text with citations, tools like ChatGPT can often make up sources that don't actually exist. To complicate matters, it doesn't do this consistently, so it may return a text with both real and fabricated sources as in the example below.

In the next below, ChatGPT was provided with the following prompt:

Please provide two to three paragraphs with in-text citations about architecture in extreme or adverse environments.

The only reference returned that appears to be real is the first, though the author seems to be incorrect. The others are not real.