Citing AI generated images

[hochleitner]

Recently, questions came up on how to cite images generated by AI tools such as Midjourney, DALL·E 2/DALL·E 3, Fotor, Canva and all those others out there.

Should we add an example to the images or literature section describing how to do that?

Here are some guides:

• https://rmit.libguides.com/referencing_AI_tools/images
• https://libguides.uvic.ca/AI_Tools/citing_AI_images
• https://style.mla.org/citing-generative-ai/

For images, they all seem to recommend adding the prompt and tool to the caption; only MLA says this could also be added as a reference.

What do you think, @imagingbook?

[imagingbook]

I would also just add the prompt and tool to the caption, perhaps optionally give a reference to the tool ("software"). Creating an actual reference entry for the created image (as suggested by MLA) doesn't make much sense, since the result is usually non-deterministic and thus non-reproducible by other users. Yes, adding an example in the tutorial will be helpful!