AI tools that generate text, such as OpenAI's ChatGPT, are large language models with an interface, where you can ask a question, receive a detailed response and follow up with additional queries.
Current copyright law only recognises humans as authors. From a copyright perspective an AI tool cannot be recognised as the creator of a work, however it is important to explain that an AI tool was used in the creation of the work.
Your teachers can tell you if you are able to use artificial intelligence (AI) tools in your assessment tasks, including how you can use the tools and what tools you can use. If you use any AI tools, you must appropriately acknowledge and reference the use of these tools and their outputs. Failure to reference the use of these tools can result in academic misconduct.
The current guidelines from the APA style manual editors are to reference outputs from AI tools such as ChatGPT in a similar way to referencing software outputs. Use the name of the creator of the tool as the author and include both an in-text citation and a reference list/ bibliography entry. If a shareable URL to the content is available, include it in your reference list entry.
OpenAI (2023) states...
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...and the impact this has on the representation of education (OpenAI, 2023).
Author. (Year). Title of software program (Version) [Format]. Publisher*. URL
*Note: when the publisher and author name are the same, do not repeat the publisher name after the format, and instead move directly to the URL.
OpenAI. (2023). ChatGPT (September 25 version) [Large language model]. https://chat.openai.com/share/adb43965-d2b2-4ed6-8c6f-33910442958f
The current guidelines from the APA style manual editors are to reference outputs from AI tools such as ChatGPT in a similar way to referencing software outputs. Use the name of the creator of the tool as the author and include both an in-text citation and a reference list / bibliography entry. If the content is not shareable, include the prompt used and the generated text in an appendix, and refer to the appendix in the reference list entry.
Google (2023) explain that..
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...which is important in chemistry (Google, 2023).
Author. (Year). Title of software program (Version) [Format]. Publisher*. Appendix.
*Note: when the publisher and author name are the same, do not repeat the publisher name after the format, and instead move directly to the URL.
Google. (2023). Bard (2023.06.07 version) [Large language model]. See Appendix for text generated and prompt used.