A secondary or indirect source refers to another author's content quoted by the author you are reading. For example, Bing AI Chat quotes a section of text from Jane Austen's writing.
As a standard research process, authors should evaluate all the references generated and used by an AI Generator for authenticity, accuracy and relevance. If the references are appropriate, "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" (McAdoo, 2023). As a rule, secondary sources should only be used if the primary source is unattainable, eg. out of print or in another language.
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Provide the reference for the secondary source used Author. (Date). Title. (Version) [Description]. Source. URL |
(Primary source information, as cited in Secondary source information) | |
| Microsoft. (2023). Bing AI Chat. (Apr 2023 version) [Large Language Model]. https://bing.com/chat | (Austen, 1833, as cited in Microsoft, 2023; see Appendix A for full transcript) | |
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| Author. (Date). Title. (Version) [Description]. Source. URL | ||
| Microsoft. (2023). Bing AI Chat. (Apr 2023 version) [Large Language Model]. https://bing.com/chat | Jane Austin, (1833, as cited in Microsoft, 2023) |
You must include the full prompt/s and generated text as an appendix to your assessment task
Reference List
McAdoo, T. (2023). How to cite ChatGPT. APA Style. https://apastyle.apa.org/blog/how-to-cite-chatgpt