Setting Up Appropriate Guardrails for AI as a Research Tool
Tools such as ChatGPT threaten transparent science; here are our ground rules for their use https://t.co/9H23Dp8Ajg
— Jill ONeill (@jillmwo) January 25, 2023
...ultimately, research must have transparency in methods, and integrity and truth from authors. This is, after all, the foundation that science relies on to advance.
That’s why it is high time researchers and publishers laid down ground rules about using LLMs ethically. Nature, along with all Springer Nature journals, has formulated the following two principles, which have been added to our existing guide to authors (see go.nature.com/3j1jxsw). As Nature’s news team has reported, other scientific publishers are likely to adopt a similar stance.
First, no LLM tool will be accepted as a credited author on a research paper. That is because any attribution of authorship carries with it accountability for the work, and AI tools cannot take such responsibility.
Second, researchers using LLM tools should document this use in the methods or acknowledgements sections. If a paper does not include these sections, the introduction or another appropriate section can be used to document the use of the LLM.
Mainstream Media Takes Note
ChatGPT can’t be credited as an author, says world’s largest academic publisher https://t.co/6oh5oEeu43 via @Verge
— Jill ONeill (@jillmwo) January 27, 2023