Should researchers use AI to write papers? Group aims for community-driven standards

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Tools such as ChatGPT may be used for 1% to 5% of manuscripts, recent estimates suggest

When and how should text-generating artificial intelligence programs such as ChatGPT help write research papers? In the coming months, 4000 researchers from a variety of disciplines and countries will weigh in on guidelines that could be adopted widely across academic publishing,. The group behind the effort wants to replace the piecemeal landscape of current guidelines with a single set of standards that represents a consensus of the research community.

the STM Association, a publishing trade body, spelled out allowed uses for generative AI and lists other areas on which journal editors should decide case by caseThe variety of guidelines could be confusing for researchers. “Ideally there should be a big effort to bring all these rules together into one big set that everyone can follow,” says Jean-Christophe Bélisle-Pipon, a health ethicist at Simon Fraser University.

The number of researchers using the tools in their writing appears to be soaring. Some cases of undisclosed, illicit ChatGPT use are obvious. It sometimes adds to text telltale phases such as “knowledge cutoff in September 2021.” “These are real smoking guns,” says University of Toulouse computer scientist Guillaume Cabanac, who

estimates that just over 1% of articles published in 2023, about 60,000 in total, contained a disproportionate occurrence of unusual words known to be correlated with LLM-generated text

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