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6 Ethical Ways to

Use AI in Your Studies


Pierre-Emmanuel Roy, MA, MA(LIS)
Earth Sciences Library, Freie Universität Berlin

Coffee lecture, summer semester 2024


This work is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution 4.0 International License.
Slides published here: https://www.geo.fu-
berlin.de/en/bibliotheken/Aktuelles/Coffee-Lectures-2024-S.html
Image generated with Stable Diffusion
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FU guidelines on AI
• Always ask your instructor if you’re allowed to use AI, and if so,
under which conditions.
• You might be required to indicate in your assignment (e.g. in
footnotes) which AI tools you have used and how.
• Using AI tools that have not explicitly been approved by your
instructor is considered deception.
• Your instructor can not force you to use AI.
Check out
Freie Universität Berlin's guidelines on AI
(in German)
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6 ethical ways to use AI
1. Find relevant literature
2. Understand complex content
3. Create outlines based on real publications
4. Check for typos and grammar mistakes
5. Mass edit content
6. Generate weirdly specific images to decorate your
PowerPoint presentations

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1. Find relevant literature

a) Get useful keywords for


your literature search
(→ Perplexity, ChatGPT)
b) Find sources
(→ Perplexity, OpenRead)

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Get keywords:
ChatGPT Prompt
[Context]
I'm a student of geology
looking for literature on how
AI can be used to better
assess groundwater quality.
[Demand]
Identify 2 or 3 important
concepts in my research
topic and give me for each
one a couple of keywords I
can use to find literature in
a bibliographic database.

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Find sources:
Perplexity Prompt
[Context]
I am a student of geology.
[Demand]
Give me recent,
peer-reviewed sources that
explain in a simple way
how to identify and analyze
laboratory errors.
Keywords: random errors,
systematic errors, scattering,
etc. Sources can be in
English or German.

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2. Understand complex content
Ask AI to…
• summarize or explain a text
(→ Perplexity, ChatGPT, OpenRead, Explainpaper,
SciSpace, etc.)
• explain a diagram
(→ Perplexity)

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Ask Perplexity to explain a figure you
found in an online paper.

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3. Create outlines based on real publications
→ Perplexity, ChatGPT, etc.

ChatGPT Prompt
[Context]
I'm a student writing a
scientific paper abstract.
[Demand]
Based on these three
examples, what kind of
information should I
include in my abstract?
[…]

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4. Check for typos and grammar mistakes
Have your chatbot correct your mistakes or list them so you
can make the corrections yourself.
→ Perplexity, ChatGPT, etc.

ChatGPT Prompt
List all typos and
grammar mistakes you
find in this text.
[…]

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(Worried about AI using your intellectual property as training
data? Just change your settings in your Perplexity account.)

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5. Mass edit your bibliographic references
→ Perplexity, ChatGPT, etc.

ChatGPT Prompt ChatGPT Prompt


Capitalize all surnames in [Context]
these bibliographic Here is a bibliographic reference in my preferred
references, and replace citation style: […]
the dot with a colon after
[Demand]
the publication year.
Adapt these bibliographic references to my preferred
[…]
citation style: […]
 Caution: This prompt is a little risky. Important information may be
erased from your bibliographic references.

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6. Generate weirdly specific images to decorate
your PowerPoint presentations
→ Stable Diffusion, Microsoft Designer, Craiyon, starryai, etc.

Craiyon prompt Stable Diffusion Prompt


Watercolor painting of a Pixel art illustration of a
blue bear dancing on the student holding a globe in
top of a mountain in a his hand, sitting on a
winter night. beach lounge chair.

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Thank you for your attention!
• Freie Universität Berlin's
AI Guidelines (in German)

• ChatGPT 3.5
• Perplexity
• OpenRead
• ExplainPaper
• SciSpace

• Stable Diffusion
• Microsoft Designer
• Craiyon
• starryai Image generated with Stable Diffusion

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