Guest Post — The Case For Not Citing Chatbots As Information Sources (Part II)
Citing chatbots as information sources offer little in terms of promoting smart use of generative AI and could also be damaging.
Jan Ove Rein is Senior Research Librarian at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), and acts as a subject specialist for medicine, providing teaching, counseling and research support for staff and students at The Faculty of Medicine and Health Science.
Citing chatbots as information sources offer little in terms of promoting smart use of generative AI and could also be damaging.
If you use a chatbot in writing a text, and are discouraged from listing it as a coauthor, should you attribute the relevant passages to the tool via citation instead? Is it appropriate to cite chatbots as information sources?