Citing in Harvard for an AI

The ScaysTech Newsletter Podcast · Sep 22, 2025 · 4m

I recently wanted to add a citation for a conversation I had with Google Gemini, it was in part asking for clarification on an article I am writing on Thunderstorms, I asked Gemini for a Harvard Citation, and I got the reply that as its not a human or the author of any of the conversations we have had, Gemini was not allowed to give a citation, also as the information it was using came from external web pages, if some one tried to view the page it might not be the same.

I sat back and after a while, I realised Gemini was right, the words are all mine, I just asked for conformation. But I…