Uses and Misuses of ChatGPT by Academic Community: An Overview and Guidelines
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The field of ethics in information technology has become increasingly important in recent years, particularly with the rapid development of AI technology such as ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence-based language model developed by OpenAI which processes and generates text in response to input from users. This paper provides an overview of the academic and research-related uses and misuses of ChatGPT. Particularly, the paper discusses the potential benefits and risks associated with the use of ChatGPT by the academic community. The paper further identifies potential ethical concerns related to issues such as authorship, accountability, privacy, transparency, disclosure, credibility and integrity of scientific inquiry - and it provides some guidelines to authors, editors, and publishers to navigate these challenges.
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ChatGPT can assist in refining written work by providing suggestions for sentence structure, word choice, and grammar.
“ChatGPT can assists in refining their written work by providing suggestions for sentence structure, word choice, and grammar (Abbas, 2023; Dwivedi et al., 2023).”
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- Authors
- Abbas, M.
- Affiliations
- National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (PK)
- Corresponding author
- Abbas, Muhammad
- ORCID
- Abbas, Muhammad
- Venue
- SSRN Electronic Journal
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2023
- ISSN
- 1556-5068 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4367152887
- Cited by
- 13
- References
- 15
- Citations by year
- 2025: 7 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 1
- Type
- posted content
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- doi.org
- Locations
- SSRN Electronic Journal (acceptedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Academic integrity and plagiarism
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Artificial Intelligence in Education
- Keywords
- ChatGPT, large language models, academic use of AI, AI ethics, authorship, accountability, privacy, transparency, disclosure, scientific integrity, research misconduct, author guidelines, journal editorial policy
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