While one must use AI with the upmost integrity without sacrificing one’s authentically creativity and voice, I have discovered several good uses of AI. One of those is to create one-off references for presentations. I say “one-off” because if I anticipate using the reference in subsequent presentations or articles, I’ll create the reference in EndNote. But for creating a quick reference to add to the presenter notes in a slide, AI is perfect. I just paste the URL into ChatGPT and ask for an APA reference. Here is one I had ChatGPT create for a presentation I’m preparing on AI in education:
Pretty much my only use of Google is their Scholar search so no need for AI.
Gives me good coverage of the academic literature both white and grey. And provides citations in various journal formats and in BibTeX/Endnotes files.
However, in the various universities that I have worked in or studied at Morning Brew would not be considered a suitable source as it is a minor news publication. Indeed all those universities dislike references to press sources with the exception of a refereed or conference paper being the original cite.
I agree, but my presentation is relatively simple. While it will contain references to scholarly works, some of the references will be from populist publications.
