AI Tools Meant to Assist Individuals with Presentations

What is Presentation AI?

AI presentation software helps people use generative AI to create, design, and edit presentations.

What are some Presentation AI Tools?

Gamma.app

Gamma is an AI-powered app that helps users create presentations, documents, and web pages. It can create presentations from text notes, URLs, or a single topic. It can include images, videos, charts, graphs, and interactive elements. Users can export presentations as PDFs or PowerPoints, or publish them to a website.

SlidesAI

SlidesAI.io is a tool that uses AI to create presentations from text. It can be used to quickly create professional presentations, even for beginners, and doesn't require design skills.

SlidesGPT

Slides GPT is an AI-powered tool that can be used to create presentations from text or a given topic. It can generate images and create entire presentations or individual slides, including descriptions and layouts.

How do I cite Presentation AI tools?

If you choose to use generative AI tools for creating slide content in your presentations, you should acknowledge or cite the output of those tools in your work. This includes situations in which you use generative AI to embed direct quotations and paraphrasing in your presentations, as well as using the tool for tasks like editing and translating.

As for what to include in your in-text citations and the Bibliography, Reference, Works Cited section of your written work, apply the appropriate citation style's guidelines for citing generative AI.

APA Style (7th Edition)

At present, the American Psychological Association (APA) has not released official guidelines for citing generative AI. Even so, the APA did release a post on the APA Style Blog a short time ago providing guidance on citing generative AI.

Chicago Style (18th Edition)

The Chicago Manual of Style provides guidance for citing generative AI tools within its newly issued 18th edition, Section 14.112:

"You do need to credit generative AI whenever you use the text that it generates in your presentations. But in most cases, you can simply acknowledge the AI tool in your text (e.g., “This example of a tropic cascade was generated by Slides AI”).

If you need a more formal citation—for example, for a research presentation—a numbered footnote or endnote might look like this:

• Text generated by Gamma.app, Gamma Tech, Inc., March 17, 2024, https://gamma.app/chat

Gamma.app stands in as “author” of the content, and Gamma Tech, Inc. (the company that developed Gamma.app) is the publisher or sponsor, followed by the date the text was generated. After that, the URL tells us where the Gamma.app tool may be found, but because viewers of your presentation can’t necessarily get to the cited content (see below), that URL isn’t an essential element of the citation.

If the prompt you used to generate content in your presentation hasn't been included in the content of a slide, it can be included in the note:

• Gamma.app, response to “Provide an example of a tropic cascade,” Gamma Tech, Inc., March 17, 2024.

If you’ve edited the AI-generated text that you've included in your presentation, you should say so in the text or at the end of the note (e.g., “edited for style and content”). But you don’t need to say, for example, that you’ve applied smart quotes or adjusted the font; changes like those can be imposed silently.

If you’re using author-date instead of notes, any information not in the text would be placed in a parenthetical text reference. For example: (Gamma.app, March 17, 2024).”

MLA Style (9th Edition)

MLA now provides official guidance for citing information produced by generative AI. According to MLA, individuals who use generative AI in their presentations should not credit the generative AI as an author. Additionally, the description of the content of the generated product should be treated as the title of the source, as if it were an article or chapter title.

Here are some other guidelines for referencing AI-generated content in MLA style:

• Cite the AI tool when you include its response(s) to your prompt(s) in your presentation. This includes paraphrased content, data, direct quotations, and images.
• If you use an AI tool to translate a text or edit your work, include a note about this somewhere in your presentation.
• The MLA regards AI-generated content as a source with no author. As such, you should use the name of the AI tool you used in both your in-text citations and reference list. The title you choose should be a brief description of the AI-generated content, such as an abbreviated version of the prompt you used.
• If you create a shareable link to the chat transcript, include that instead of the AI tool's URL.

Last updated December 4, 2024

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