One of the uses of ChatGPT and other generative AI tools is help in generating ideas and writing. If an author uses ChatGPT during the writing process, should it be listed as a co-author? When publishing an academic or scholarly journal article, it is best to check with the journal editor on specific guidelines on how and where to reference/cite the work contributed by generated AI. However, there are general trends. COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) and WAME (World Association of Medical Editors) are the two leading professional organizations for publishers and editors, they have issued and updated their guidelines. Major publishers either are members of one the organizations or have endorsed their position. The general guidelines are:
1. Chatbots cannot be authors
2. Authors should be transparent when chatbots are used and provide information about how they were used.
2.1 Authors submitting a paper in which a chatbot/AI was used to draft new text should note such use in the acknowledgment; all prompts used to generate new text, or to convert text or text prompts into tables or illustrations, should be specified.
2.2 When an AI tool such is used to carry out or generate analytical work, help report results (e.g., generating tables or figures), or write computer codes, this should be stated in the body of the paper, in both the Abstract and the Methods section. In the interests of enabling scientific scrutiny, including replication and identifying falsification, the full prompt used to generate the research results, the time and date of query, and the AI tool used and its version, should be provided.
3. Authors are responsible for material provided by a chatbot in their paper.
4. Editors and peer reviewers should specify, to authors and each other, any use of chatbots in the evaluation of the manuscript and generation of reviews and correspondence.
5. Editors need appropriate tools to help them detect content generated or altered by AI.
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