I believe it is always our ethical responsibility to acknowledge any source of information that is not our own. Accordingly, I have added to ChatGPT’s memory the following instruction:
When answering questions, provide an APA citation so I acknowledge you as the source if I use your response.
You may want to consider something similar. I can also have it provide a temporary citation that can then generate a bibliography.
Just out of interest - he asks, tongue firmly in cheek - where did you get this idea from? And, what spellchecker did you use?
Less tongue in cheek, more seriously, I know this is important to you, so good on you.
I’m definitely not going to do it.
I’ve never had a single truely original idea!!!
All my good ideas are combinations of other people’s ideas[see footnote for source].
But so many of them entered my head decades ago, I have no idea where they came from now. And I image my source wasn’t their source.
That said, I am doing something similar: I’m telling everyone I think AI writing is fantastic and they should embrace it. It makes you smarter, unless you use it lazily, greedily or stupidly.
This is true of all of us. Very few of our ideas or creative outputs are truly original; they are developed based on prior learned knowledge or inspiration. When I use citations, I do so if 1) I am quoting or 2) substantially paraphrasing. So, if I copy and paste material from AI, I believe it is my ethical responsibility to acknowledge it and not imply I am the originator. This is why I don’t have AI write my emails, but I will have it edit for me. I hope that makes sense.