The use of AI systems to create material for submission of an assessment and presenting it as your own work is regarded as academic misconduct and will be treated as such. Please refer to the University’s Academic Misconduct Regulations and Procedures.
Academic positions on this are still being formed, and if you're not sure it's best to ask your tutor. But the following might be ways in which you could use AI tools.
Positions on how to cite AI tools are still emerging. Some educators believe that AI can't be treated as a source like an author. An AI doesn't "know" things in and of itself, it creates content based upon the body of information that it's been trained on.
The American Psychological Association suggest that:
"Authors using ChatGPT or similar AI tools for research should consider making this scrutiny of the primary sources a standard process. If the sources are real, accurate, and relevant, it may be better to read those original sources to learn from that research and paraphrase or quote from those articles, as applicable, than to use the model’s interpretation of them".
Some people believe that AI should be cited according to the citation style of personal communication. This is because the use of an AI chatbot can in some ways resemble a conversation.
Some educators believe that AI tools should be cited as software.
The University will clarify guidance on citing AI tools such as ChatGPT in the UoB Harvard style in due course. In the interim, the following guidance may be helpful.