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Citing text generated by AI

How to cite
When citing text generated by AI (ChatGPT, Bard, etc.), credit should be given to the tool in the form of a note (or in-text if using author-date), but should only be cited in the bibliography if a publicly available URL is included (this would require a browser extension like ShareGPT or A.I. Archives). Since readers cannot necessarily get to the cited content without the prompt used by the writer, the general URL (ex: https://chat.openai.com/chat) is not considered an essential part of the citation.

 

Examples:
If the prompt given to the AI tool IS included in the text, it should be cited only as a note:

     1. Text generated by ChatGPT, OpenAI, August 18, 2023, https://chat.openai.com/chat.

If the prompt given to the AI tool IS NOT included in the text, it should be cited in the note as:

     1. ChatGPT, response to "What was the Teapot Dome scandal?", OpenAI, August 18, 2023.

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