APA Reference Guide: ChatGPT and AI sources

**Check with your teacher as to whether ChatGPT or other Artificial Intelligence tools are acceptable information sources.

ChatGPT advises that it "may produce inaccurate information about people, places or facts", so it is always best practice to use original information sources and not to rely on generative artificial intelligence tools.

How to incorporate ChatGPT and other Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools in your research:
 

- include descriptions of how you used ChatGPT or AI sources in the introduction of your essays, or in the Methods section of your research assessment

- provide the prompt you used as well as a portion of relevant text that was generated in response

- you may also add the full text of long responses from ChatGPT in an appendix of your assessment so your teacher has access to the exact text that was generated (this is important as ChatGPT will generate a unique response in each chat session, even if given the same prompt).

Example:
If I ask ChatGPT the following question: "Globally, what is the ratio of left-handed to right-handed people?", I would include the response and in-text citation as follows:

When prompted with “What is the ratio of left-handed to right-handed people in the world?” the ChatGPT-generated text indicated that "the exact ratio of left-handed to right-handed people in the world is not known with certainty. However, it is estimated that approximately 10% of the global population is left-handed, while the remaining 90% is right-handed" (OpenAI, 2023).