Following DSU's "Posture Statement on the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Teaching and Learning," the DSU Library works to adopt and integrate AI tools into our resources for student and faculty use. This page will be continually updated as more information comes out and more platforms begin using AI.
When using any artificial intelligence tool, read ahead on what type of AI it is, how it generates its responses, and where it gets its information. AI tools that use the World Wide Web as learning data have much higher chances of providing misinformation and producing plagiarized answers. Some AI tools also pose security risks because they collect your inputs to use as training data, breaking confidentiality. The DSU Library does not provide access to AI tools that use black box models or collect personal information.
Artificial Intelligence tools like ChatGPT are NOT search engines. These tools generate text by predicting which word to use in order to make the most coherent sentence. As such, they are programmed to imitate speech, not to be factual or to provide search results like a search engine like Google would. The AI research assistants found in this guide are programmed to help you find the most relevant string of search queries to give you the best results within a particular database. These research assistants take their answers only from the academic literature found within their database, while large-language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT take from the entirety of the Internet, increasing the probability of creating non-existent resources and providing false information in the guise of a reliable source. If you want to conduct a search, go to a search engine or database, not ChatGPT.
