Can an artificial intelligence chatbot be the author of a scholarly article?

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Science Editing Pub Date : 2023-02-16 DOI:10.6087/kcse.292

Ju Yoen Lee

引用次数: 5

Abstract

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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一个人工智能聊天机器人能成为一篇学术文章的作者吗?

2022年底，具有惊人写作能力的人工智能(AI)聊天机器人ChatGPT的出现在学术界引起了极大的轰动。事实证明，这个聊天机器人非常有能力，但也有欺骗能力，有消息称，几名研究人员已经将这个聊天机器人(包括它的早期版本)列为他们学术论文的共同作者。对此，《自然》和《科学》表示，不能在发表的论文中把这个聊天机器人列为作者。由于AI聊天机器人不是人类，在目前的法律体系中，AI聊天机器人自动生成的文本不可能是受版权保护的作品;因此，人工智能聊天机器人不能是受版权保护的作品的作者。目前，ChatGPT等人工智能聊天机器人在原创文字方面比搜索引擎先进得多，但由于无法承担写作责任，仍然停留在搜索引擎的水平。因此，从研究伦理的角度来看，他们也不能成为作者。

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Science Editing COMMUNICATION-

CiteScore

2.90

自引率

20.00%

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审稿时长

10 weeks

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