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ED673: Research for School Counselors (Keller): Generative AI

Course guide for ED673

If you decide to use Generative AI in your work for this course, please use it responsibly.

Information that may help you is shown below.

Using Generative AI Responsibly

Using Generative AI Responsibly

Privacy

To ensure privacy, you will need to keep all personal information (about you or other people) out of your prompts to a generative AI tool.  The information you provide may be used in future training of the models.

Citing Your Use of Generative AI

As you would cite sources that you have used in your papers and projects, you need to describe the ways in which you have used generative AI.  However, there are some differences because readers cannot get back to the responses that were generated for you and you may not be able to determine what source was used to generate the AI tool's response.  APA guidance on citing ChatGPT is shown on this page.

You can use this tutorial to check your knowledge of using generative AI responsibly in your coursework.

Although policies vary for different journals, this example shows an editors' statement on the responsible use of generative AI in scholarly publishing.

Aspects of Generative AI to Consider

Concerns

Loss of Privacy

Privacy can be lost when entering personal information into a large language model such as ChatGPT which may use the information when continuing to train the tool (see this article or this shorter article).  Please keep all personal information (about you or other people) out of your prompts to a generative AI tool.

For your own privacy, you may also want to use a temporary email when you need to create an account. 

Inaccurate or Biased Responses

AI tools can provide inaccurate and/or biased responses.  This can happen due to the model not "understanding" the prompts or due to biases fed into the model during training. Some problems that these responses can create are described in this article.

Copyright Issues

Copyright owners for material that was used to train AI are starting to file lawsuits.

Additional Considerations

This article summarizes a range of concerns.  This article covers potential benefits and concerns regarding education.

CONTACT

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Irwin Library: 317-940-9227
Science Library: 317-940-9937

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