Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI)

You will need to confirm with your Unit Coordinator whether you are permitted to use Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) such as ChatGPT in your assessments. If it is used ALL the content that is generated must be referenced. 

At present, there are no specific guidelines for referencing AI tools using the Australian Guide to Legal Citation 4 style.

For this style, the editors of Melbourne University Law Review, recommend the following:

• Content that is generated from an AI tool should be referenced as Written Correspondence (Rule 7.12). 
• Discursive Text may be included in the footnote, to provide information regarding any prompts used to generate any output - see Rule 1.1.5 for further information on Discursive Text. 
• An Appendix may be included in your assignment / assessment, to provide comprehensive information about the various prompts used to generate the output.
• You may be required to produce any prompts and the output that is generated from such prompts. Please ensure that any prompts and any accompanying output, that is generated from any prompts, have been archived in your personal ChatGPT account. 

Guidelines on how to reference text output:

See the Australian Guide to Legal Citation 4 for more information on citing Written Correspondence. 

The AGLC4 does not provide specific guidance on referencing images that have been generated using AI tools. Below we have provided some interim guidance, on how you can reference either an image you have created yourself, or an image that you would like to use, that you have found in a published source. 

To reference an AI generated image you have created yourself, you will need to do so in the text of your assignment. You don't need to include a footnote reference. In your assignment you will need to include the following elements: a Figure number, the image, a caption indicating that the image was generated using an AI tool and the prompt that was used. Here is an example: 

Figure 1. Image generated using Microsoft Copilot Designer from the prompt, 'Create an image that encapsulates how to find the best evidence in a Library. Don't include any people in the image'. 

To reference an image from a published source, you will need include both an in the text reference in your assignment, a corresponding footnote entry and a bibliographic entry. In your text you will need to include a Figure number, a caption with a description of the figure and a note number that matches the corresponding footnote entry. Here is an example:

Figure 2. Robots masquerading as journalists [3]  

The corresponding footnote entry would be:

3 Monica Attard, Michael Davis and Lisa Main, Gen AI and Journalism. (Report, 2023) <https://www.uts.edu.au/sites/default/files/2023-12/GEN%20AI%20and%20Journalism_web%20version.pdf>.

The corresponding bibliographic entry would be: 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

A Articles/Books/Reports

Attard, Monica, Michael Davis and Lisa Main, Gen AI and Journalism. (Report, 2023)

(NB: The example provided is for a Report. Depending on the published source, you will need to reference the respective published source, according to the conventions for that specific source).  

Please note:

• The editors of the Melbourne University Law Review wish to advise that the advice is "interim guidance", as there is no specific rule for referencing AI tools in the AGLC4 and the information provided is not officially part of the AGLC4. 
• The information provided in this library guide is subject to change, as guidance on referencing AI tools continues to evolve. 

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