The emergence of artificial intelligence and advanced language models (e.g. ChatGPT) into everyday life and academia is leading to a lively debate about the extent to which the use of such resources is ethical and acceptable, for example, in the production of term and final papers.
At KAJL we accept if a student chooses to reach for these resources. In such a case, the method and reason for using AI must be explained in the text of the thesis itself. Some universities require that a recording of the quoted conversation (session) with the language model be included in the appendices of the thesis. We leave such a decision to the individual supervisors for the time being.
Until university guidelines are published, we recommend that AI-generated texts be cited according to the examples below. In square brackets, the session/task/question is posed to the language model (in our examples, we give the most commonly used ChatGPT model, but the student can use another model, which is then correctly cited in the citation):
APA style (social sciences, teaching):
OpenAI. (2023, June 20). Chat conversation with ChatGPT [What is ChatGPT?]. Retrieved from: https://chat.example.com/conversation123
MLA style (humanities, philology):
[What is chatGPT?]. Online. In: ChatGPT. September 25 version. Available from: OpenAI, https://chat.openai.com/share/ebac476e-15b0-42b6-ac95-d79e780f4956 [cit. 2023-09-27].