Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Academic Integrity

For Students:

• Check your syllabus for your professor's statement about ChatGPT or AI first. If there is no statement, ask your professor before using AI tools in your coursework. Unauthorized use of AI could be considered cheating.
• To avoid plagiarism, it is necessary to cite any quotes, paraphrasing, and ideas you get from AI, just as you would with other sources. Some professors may also want you to explain how you used AI in completing the assignment and/or turn in the content the AI tool generated.
• AI tools such as ChatGPT or Gemini may make up credible-sounding citations to sources that do not exist, which is called “hallucinating.” Make sure you locate and read the full source before using it in your research project.

For Instructors:

• Consider what uses of AI are acceptable within your courses. Can students use AI in some stages of the researching, writing or creating process? As a tool for brainstorming or studying? If so, be specific about what is allowed and what is not, and what the expectations are for citing AI tools. 
• Include a clear statement about AI parameters on your syllabus. 

Citing Generative AI Output

• Generative AI in MLA style

  As of December 2024, MLA does not recommend treating an AI tool as an author, and instead using the Title of Container element to specify the AI tool and the Publisher element to specify the company that made the tool.

• Generative AI in APA style

  As of December 2024, APA style recommends citing the AI tool company as the author and AI tool as the title, with in-text citations and references adapted from the reference template for software in Section 10.10 of the Publication Manual (American Psychological Association, 2020, Chapter 10).

• Generative AI in Chicago style

  As of December 2024, Chicago style does cite AI tool as author, with the following example: "ChatGPT is the author of the content, and the date is the date the text was generated. OpenAI (the organization that developed ChatGPT) is then listed as the publisher or sponsor of the content."