ChatGPT and Works Scholarly: Best Practices and Legal Pitfalls in Writing with AI
It offers guidance for scholars on legal and ethical pitfalls in AI-assisted writing, but is incremental as it builds on existing legal and scholarly discussions.
The paper addresses the appropriateness and legality of using AI in scholarly writing, providing a framework for evaluating copyright and fair use issues and establishing best practices for integration.
Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have raised questions about whether the use of AI is appropriate and legal in various professional contexts. Here, we present a perspective on how scholars may approach writing in conjunction with AI, and offer approaches to evaluating whether or not such AI-writing violates copyright or falls within the safe harbor of fair use. We present a set of best practices for standard of care with regard to plagiarism, copyright, and fair use. As AI is likely to grow more capable in the coming years, it is appropriate to begin integrating AI into scholarly writing activities. We offer a framework for establishing sound legal and scholarly foundations.