All sources used in assessments, including AI-generative tools, require full and proper acknowledgement. Using AI-generated content without acknowledgement is a breach of academic integrity that may result in academic misconduct allegations and subsequent consequences.
You should seek clarification from the Lecturer-in-charge (LIC) of your unit to see if it is permissable to use AI in your assessments. According to the University's Student Academic Integrity and Misconduct Policy (8.1.c), unauthorised or undisclosed use of artificial intelligence is a form of academic misconduct.
The ACU Library Referencing Guide has advice on when and how to acknowledge the use of AI tools. This information is likely to be updated, so please check back on this advice each trimester.
If you use generative AI in the development of ideas and concepts for your assignment, you should acknowledge in your bibliography how you used the tool, even if you don’t include any AI generated content in your work. Provide a description of the AI tool used, how the information was generated, including the prompts you used, and the date accessed. You could add this acknowledgement as a footnote or at the end of your reference list but you should check with the course coordinator to clarify.
Format:
I acknowledge the use of [insert AI system(s) with link] to [how the AI was used]. The prompts used include [list of prompts].
Example:
I acknowledge the use of ChatGPT [https://chat.openai.com/] to generate ideas and material for background research and project planning in the drafting of this assignment. The following prompts were entered into ChatGPT on 30th March 2023: