{"id":8203,"date":"2023-01-22T22:32:24","date_gmt":"2023-01-22T22:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8203"},"modified":"2023-01-22T22:32:24","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T22:32:24","slug":"chatgpt-listed-as-author-on-research-papers-many-scientists-disapprove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8203","title":{"rendered":"ChatGPT listed as author on research papers: many scientists disapprove"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-023-00107-z\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/media.nature.com\/lw767\/magazine-assets\/d41586-023-00107-z\/d41586-023-00107-z_23931978.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The editors-in-chief of Nature and Science told Nature\u2019s news team that ChatGPT doesn\u2019t meet the standard for authorship. \u201cAn attribution of authorship carries with it accountability for the work, which cannot be effectively applied to LLMs,\u201d says Magdalena Skipper, editor-in-chief of Nature in London. Authors using LLMs in any way while developing a paper should document their use in the methods or acknowledgements sections, if appropriate, she says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We are beginning to see interesting ethical issues crop up regarding the new LLMs (Large Language Models) like ChatGPT. For example, Nature has an news article, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-023-00107-z\">ChatGPT listed as author on research papers: many scientists disapprove<\/a>,.<\/p>\n<p>It makes sense to document use, but why would we document use of ChatGPT and not, for example, use of a library or of a research tool like Google Scholar? What about the use of ChatGPT demands that it be acknowledged?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The editors-in-chief of Nature and Science told Nature\u2019s news team that ChatGPT doesn\u2019t meet the standard for authorship. \u201cAn attribution of authorship carries with it accountability for the work, which cannot be effectively applied to LLMs,\u201d says Magdalena Skipper, editor-in-chief of Nature in London. Authors using LLMs in any way while developing a paper should &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8203\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ChatGPT listed as author on research papers: many scientists disapprove<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,54,58,24,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-big-data","category-ethics-of-data-science","category-markup-and-text-representation","category-media-and-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8204,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8203\/revisions\/8204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}