From: Ann Shumelda Okerson <[log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2024 09:35:38 -0400

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

April 16, 2024.  When and how should text-generating artificial
intelligence (AI) 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, which has been grappling with chatbots and other AI
issues for the past year and a half
<https://www.science.org/content/article/scientists-explore-ai-written-text-journals-hammer-policies>.
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.

Known as CANGARU, the initiative is a partnership between researchers and
publishers including Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley; representatives from
journals eLife, Cell, and The BMJ; as well as industry body the Committee
on Publication Ethics. The group hopes to release a final set of guidelines
by August, which will be updated every year because of the “fast evolving
nature of this technology,” says Giovanni Cacciamani, a urologist at the
University of Southern California who leads CANGARU. The guidelines will
include a list of ways authors should not use the large language models
(LLMs) that power chatbots and how they should disclose other uses.

More at:
https://www.science.org/content/article/should-researchers-use-ai-write-papers-group-aims-community-driven-standards