AI Generated Images
The full image generated using AI should be included in your work (e.g. essay, presentation, process book), and treated like any other image used in academic work. It should be captioned and referenced in the List of Figures.
The figure reference should be made up of the following elements:
- Name of AI organisation (or tool/platform where this is unavailable).
- Year work was generated.
- Full text prompt used to generate the image.
- Name of tool/platform (if different from above).
- [Generative AI].
- URL of platform.
- Date generated.
The organisation that created the model or the name of the tool itself should be treated as the ‘author’ of the work. Images produced by these technologies are not the product of human authorship, and should not be credited as your own work. The text prompt used to create the image should be used as the ‘title’ of the work.
Different AI tools/platforms (e.g. Dall-E, Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, etc.) may require slightly different referencing details, based on the information they provide.
Examples:
Figure 2: OpenAI. (2023). ‘Pointillist painting of a sheep in a sunny field of blue flowers’ prompt. DALL-E 2. [Generative AI]. Available from: labs.openai.com. [Accessed 10 May 2023].
Figure 3: Midjourney. (2023). ‘Tiny cute adorable ginger tabby kitten studio light’ prompt. [Generative AI]. Available from: https://www.midjourney.com/. [Accessed 19 May 2023].