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Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI): Citing AI Generated Content

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Remebmber that information provided by Generative AI should always be checked and verified, because GenAI can sometimes generate false information that may be false, biased, or out of date and does not accurately reflect reality, known as "AI hallucination". 

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AI hallucination, also known as DeepDream, is a phenomenon associated with the use of artificial neural networks. It was originally developed by Google's engineers. The term "hallucination" comes from the fact that the AI is "seeing" or generating images that are not really there.

When creating a hallucination, the AI is given an image to analyze, and then asked to enhance and modify the image based on what it "thinks" is there. This process can be repeated multiple times, creating vivid and often surreal images as the AI continually magnifies and enhances its own interpretations.

This is usually done by training an AI model on a large dataset of images, allowing it to learn how to identify and generate different features and objects. When the model is then given a new image, it applies these learned patterns, often generating images that are strange or surreal.

This concept also extends to other domains of AI like Natural Language Processing where the model might "hallucinate" information that it has not been explicitly provided with, based on its training data.

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Citing AI Generated Content

In this post, the APA Style team discuss situations where students and researchers use ChatGPT to create text and to facilitate their research, not to write the full text of their paper or manuscript. 

MLA does not recommend treating the AI tool as an author. This recommendation follows the policies developed by various publishers.

Chicago style does cite AI tool as author and the company as the publisher or sponsor, followed by the date the text was generated. 

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