Artificial Intelligence

You must always check with your professor to see if AI is allowed for your assignments.  If you do use it, you must adhere to the guidelines of citing AI.  Rules for citing AI are newly formed and will most likely see changes in the future, which means you have to stay up to date.

Acknowledge use of AI tools when used.  This can be done through citations, and statements in the essay or assignment.  Statements should be specific on how and where it was used in the final product.

Remember why you cite resources...

• To give credit to someone else's work
• To participate in the rules of scholarly and academic works
• To establish credibility for your work
• To adhere to the UHV Academic Honesty policy

When AI is used to conduct research, it must be cited accordingly. Citation styles differ on whether to treat the AI model as an author, how to list the publisher, and whether to include the URL. 

The citation styles are in agreement that clearly stating how the AI tools was used in your assignment is the best practice.  Where you place that in your assignment depends on the citation style you are using.  Consider the following areas:

• Methods section
• Introduction
• In the text

Note that the style guides discuss the use of generative AI to facilitate research, not to compose entire essays.

We have observed that ChatGPT and other AI chatbots do not provide reliable citations or sources of the information they have created.  They have been known to fabricate or "hallucinate" citations.  They look good and scholarly, but they are not real. This is because LLM's are built on a large language model and were trained on a huge dataset of internet sources.  They are not connected to the internet, just their training data.

You can try to find these sources through Google or the library research databases, but chances are you will turn up nothing.

LLM's are not designed to be a search engine.  Use OneSearch (on the library home page), library databases for your discipline, or Google Scholar.