The Lublin University of Technology Publishing House, as a member of the Association of Higher Education Publishers, shares the Association’s position on the use of artificial intelligence in the writing of academic works:
- The author of scholarly texts may only be a human. AI tools, including chatbots such as ChatGPT, cannot be recognized as authors or co-authors, nor cited as authors, as they do not meet the fundamental criteria arising from the definition of authorship. In particular, they cannot assume responsibility for the reliability, integrity, and originality of the work; they do not possess legal capacity and cannot manage copyright; nor are they capable of determining the presence or absence of conflicts of interest.
- Authors who use AI tools in writing texts, collecting and analyzing data, or creating graphical elements of a work are obliged to provide an honest and fully transparent disclosure in the “Materials and Methods” section (or another appropriate section), specifying which AI tool was used, exactly how and to what extent it was used, and what impact it had on the work.
- Authors bear full responsibility for the content of the submitted manuscript, including all parts generated with the use of AI tools, and are therefore accountable for any violations of publication ethics. Particular attention should be paid to the limitations characteristic of tools such as ChatGPT, including:
- “hallucination,” i.e., generating false information that nonetheless appears credible and linguistically correct;
- plagiarism, including direct citation or appropriation of ideas without proper attribution;
- generation of inaccurate bibliographic descriptions or even entire fabricated bibliographies.
Source: A. Grejner, M. Adamczak, B. Jankowiak-Konik, Stanowisko i rekomendacje Stowarzyszenia Wydawców Szkół Wyższych w kwestii stosowania narzędzi generatywnej sztucznej inteligencji (GAI) w pisaniu prac naukowych, „Biuletyn EBIB” 2024, nr 12(213)
https://ebibojs.pl/index.php/ebib/article/view/911/930