Grammar Girl here, I'm Nyan Fokkerdy, your friendly guide to the English language.

We talk about writing, history, rules, and other cool stuff.

Today I have a practical segment about citing artificial intelligence

and a fun piece about our names for critters. Chhat GPT and other chatbots like Claude and Gemini have seen stunningly rapid

adoption in the last year or so.

You probably remember all the AI-related words in our Word of the Year episode a few months

ago.

And a January survey by Mukrach found that 64% of PR professionals were already using AI at work.

And a more recent February survey by Pew Research Center found that even among all employed Americans, which would include people who do

you know almost no writing or editing, even in that huge and diverse group, 20% say

they've used to chat ChatGPT at work. I absolutely believe it's going to be one of the most important developments in my lifetime, good and bad, affecting writers, editors, teachers, and other people I loosely

call knowledge workers or creative workers. And I'll have some upcoming interviews

with people about AI. But for today instead of philosophy, I have small

nitpicky bits of advice about how to cite AI.

The editors of the Chicago Manual of Style, the MLA Handbook and the publication manual of the American

Psychological Association have all published blog posts on how they want writers to format this kind of citation.

And note that these guidelines are not for creating whole papers from AI,

which is something you clearly shouldn't do, but for when you want to cite a piece of

information you got from a tool like chat gPT.

Chicago says it's often enough to cite the tool in the text by writing something such as

the following Limerick was generated by chat gp t. But if you need a more formal citation,

it says to treat the tool such as ChatGPT or

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