“Source?” “I Made It Up”: The Ethics of Citing ChatGPT in Academia

With the rapid growth of language-learning models like ChatGPT, academia has been forced to reckon with the way the tool can be used as a citation source. However, given the secrecy of the tool\u27s dataset and its inability to provide sources for the information it provides, the question of if using it is plagiarism has become more pressing. Examining fanfiction as a source for how plagiarism and AI has been dealt with, the paper examines the paradox of citing ChatGPT and other models like it and the central question of how and when we can use it and use it ethically