Can an artificial intelligence chatbot be the author of a scholarly article?
At the end of 2022, the appearance of ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot with amazing writing ability, caused a great sensation in academia. The chatbot turned out to be very capable, but also capable of deception, and the news broke that several researchers had listed the chatbot (inc...
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| description | At the end of 2022, the appearance of ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot with amazing writing ability, caused a great sensation in academia. The chatbot turned out to be very capable, but also capable of deception, and the news broke that several researchers had listed the chatbot (including its earlier version) as co-authors of their academic papers. In response, Nature and Science expressed their position that this chatbot cannot be listed as an author in the papers they publish. Since an AI chatbot is not a human being, in the current legal system, the text automatically generated by an AI chatbot cannot be a copyrighted work; thus, an AI chatbot cannot be an author of a copyrighted work. Current AI chatbots such as ChatGPT are much more advanced than search engines in that they produce original text, but they still remain at the level of a search engine in that they cannot take responsibility for their writing. For this reason, they also cannot be authors from the perspective of research ethics. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-aa89c518bf38454095982480614d0cba2023-03-06T01:50:26ZengKorean Council of Science EditorsScience Editing2288-80632288-74742023-02-0110171210.6087/kcse.292298Can an artificial intelligence chatbot be the author of a scholarly article?Ju Yoen Lee0 Hanyang University School of Law, Seoul, KoreaAt the end of 2022, the appearance of ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot with amazing writing ability, caused a great sensation in academia. The chatbot turned out to be very capable, but also capable of deception, and the news broke that several researchers had listed the chatbot (including its earlier version) as co-authors of their academic papers. In response, Nature and Science expressed their position that this chatbot cannot be listed as an author in the papers they publish. Since an AI chatbot is not a human being, in the current legal system, the text automatically generated by an AI chatbot cannot be a copyrighted work; thus, an AI chatbot cannot be an author of a copyrighted work. Current AI chatbots such as ChatGPT are much more advanced than search engines in that they produce original text, but they still remain at the level of a search engine in that they cannot take responsibility for their writing. For this reason, they also cannot be authors from the perspective of research ethics.http://www.escienceediting.org/upload/kcse-292.pdfauthorshipartificial intelligencechatbotcopyrightresearch ethics |
| spellingShingle | Ju Yoen Lee Can an artificial intelligence chatbot be the author of a scholarly article? Science Editing authorship artificial intelligence chatbot copyright research ethics |
| title | Can an artificial intelligence chatbot be the author of a scholarly article? |
| title_full | Can an artificial intelligence chatbot be the author of a scholarly article? |
| title_fullStr | Can an artificial intelligence chatbot be the author of a scholarly article? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Can an artificial intelligence chatbot be the author of a scholarly article? |
| title_short | Can an artificial intelligence chatbot be the author of a scholarly article? |
| title_sort | can an artificial intelligence chatbot be the author of a scholarly article |
| topic | authorship artificial intelligence chatbot copyright research ethics |
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