AI Disclosure Statements

 

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 So, you want to use AI to help write assignments for this class? Cool! I use generative AI too. Let's learn how to do this ethically together.

With the proliferation of easy-to-use generative AI tools, we're collectively trying to figure out what our world looks like. In academia, publishers like Elsevier are requiring authors to include statements disclosing the use of generative AI in their manuscriptsLinks to an external site.. APA has guidelines about citing ChatGPT specificallyLinks to an external site.. And different universities are giving guidelines for studentsLinks to an external site. and professors Links to an external site.alike. Bills are even being proposed in Congress about AI disclosuresLinks to an external site.!

For this class, I'm asking those of you that are using AI to disclose it in an AI disclosure statement at the ends of your papers. This page is to give you some examples. Here they are:

  • I used ChatGPT (Version 3.5) to help me write a title for this paper with a joke in it. It gave me a list of 5 examples and I chose the one that fit my paper best. (I have actually done this one when I couldn't come up with a good joke on my own).
  • I gave ChatGPT (Version 3.5) several prompts to explain gestalt principles (Give me examples of how gestalt principles can be used in design, explain the gestalt principle of closure with examples, etc.) and used these to find ways to redesign my flyer. When I decided on which gestalt principles I wanted to use, I double-checked the definitions and ideas from ChatGPT alongside the readings from class. 
  • I copied and pasted a draft of my essay into Bard and asked it to clean up the text. I reviewed the output for accuracy and ensured it still contained my original ideas and then submitted the final paper with a few additional edits.
  • I copied an abstract from a peer-reviewed article into Grammarly's summarize tool to get a better idea of what the article was about. Then I read the article and summarized it further to apply it to my applied problem.
  • I used Grammarly's suggestions for words to change within my paper. (I'd actually really like to know when you do this because sometimes Grammarly has super awkward word choices that don't fit and then I can tell you when that happens).
  • I copied and pasted my essay into Snapchat's "My AI" and asked it to give me feedback. It told me to add transition words and that I did a good job. I added the suggested transitions and submitted the paper.
  • I gave Perplexity.ai a list of concepts I want to use for my final applied problem as well as the context of the problem and used an outline it produced for writing my paper.
  • I asked ChatGPT (Version 4) generate definitions of neural networks and heuristics and used those definitions in my paper. I checked them for accuracy by comparing with the readings and then cited them in APA style for ChatGPT. 
  • I gave Microsoft Copilot bullet points of what I wanted to include in my applied problem including definitions from the text, specific examples from my creation, and a summary from an applied problem and asked it to turn that information into an essay. I then reviewed the essay and edited it for accuracy and to ensure it met the requirements of the assignment. 

I appreciate you all engaging in this process with me! Please always share your thoughts on these topics!