Generative AI is evolving rapidly and there is not yet general consensus on how to acknowledge and reference it.  From our perspective at CAT, we encourage you to endeavour to understand the limitations and risks of using generative AI before you consider its use.  Please consider:

• Generative AI produces information that may be inaccurate, biased, or outdated.

• Generative AI is not an original source of information: it reproduces information from unidentified sources.

• Generative AI may fabricate quotations and citations. It is always best to refer to original and credible sources of information.

If you do choose to use generative AI tools, we encourage you to critically evaluate any output it produces and acknowledge its use.

For any submission to CAT, the use of generative AI must be acknowledged in an ‘Acknowledgements’ section at the end of your work in any instance where it has been used as a functional tool to assist in the process of creating academic work.

The minimum requirement to include in acknowledgment:

• Name and version of the generative AI system used; e.g. ChatGPT-3.5

• Publisher (the company that made the AI system); e.g. OpenAI

• URL of the AI system.

• Brief description (single sentence) of the context in which the tool was used.

For example: 

I acknowledge the use of ChatGPT 3.5 (Open AI, https://chat.openai.com) to summarise my initial notes and to proofread my final draft.