Artificial Intelligence and Authorship
The emergence of generative artificial intelligence tools presents both novel opportunities and challenges to the traditional notion of authorship. We are closely monitoring these developments. Our revised guidelines on Authorship acknowledge that tools like the AI chatbot, ChatGPT and other large language models (LLMs) do not meet the criteria for authorship, cannot be listed as authors on manuscripts. While AI can contribute to the intellectual process of writing, troubleshooting, etc., it is widely recognized that it cannot assume responsibility for the content it generates, thus, content generated by artificial intelligence cannot be responsible for its scientificity, originality, reliability, authenticity, and rationality.
Instead, only authors bear full responsibility for the originality, validity, and integrity of the content in their manuscripts, ensuring compliance with all of our publication ethics policies.
Although AI technology remains a valuable resource in academic writing, its usage must be transparent when submitting papers to our journals. Authors are required to disclose fully, in the "Acknowledgments" section, the specific AI tools employed and provide detailed explanations of their utilization in the "Materials and Methods" section.
Our guideline refers to statement of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and ICMJE regarding the use of AI and AI-assisted technology in manuscript preparation. According to COPE, "authors are fully responsible for the content of their manuscript, even those parts produced by an AI tool, and are thus liable for any breach of publication ethics."
https://publicationethics.org/cope-position-statements/ai-author
The following methods of reasonable use of artificial intelligence may be classified as acceptable: checking for spelling errors, punctuation, misuse, grammatical errors, missing semantics, etc., which are non-content, non-scientific, non-research, and non-substantive assistance.
