Ethical Use of Artificial Intelligence for Scientific Writing: Current Trends
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is a big topic and is evolving rapidly.This About Research article will specifically focus on the use of AI in scientific writing and will not cover the myriad ways that AI is being used in scientific inquiry.It is titled "Current Trends" because it must be considered in the time it was written, which is early 2024.As the field evolves, the journal will continue to offer the latest guidelines to authors and links to the organizations working on ethics in the use of AI in publishing.
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AI contributions are always subject to the researcher's scrutiny and are only as valuable as the meaning the researcher can derive and justify from them.
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The Responsible Use of AI and Conclusion sections say researchers must check and validate AI-generated work, engage with its output, and take responsibility for what they publish. The paper does not say that AI contributions are valuable only to the extent that a researcher can derive and justify meaning from them; that value judgment goes beyond its discussion of oversight and accountability. The indexed passages provide no page numbers. (LLM, conf=0.82)
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- Authors
- Chetwynd, E.
- Affiliations
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
- Corresponding author
- Chetwynd, Ellen
- ORCID
- Chetwynd, Ellen
- Venue
- Journal of Human Lactation
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2024-03-14
- Volume
- 40
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 211-215
- ISSN
- 0890-3344 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-5732
- PMC
- PMC11015711
- OpenAlex
- W4392810102
- Cited by
- 62
- References
- 13
- Citations by year
- 2026: 26 · 2025: 31 · 2024: 5
- FWCI
- 25.61
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Human Lactation (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Academic integrity and plagiarism
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Academic Writing and Publishing
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
- Keywords
- artificial intelligence, scientific writing, AI ethics, research integrity, author guidelines, AI in publishing
- MeSH terms
- Artificial Intelligence, Breast Feeding, Female, Humans
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