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Generative AI at UVA

This guide features links and information about generative AI, including ethical use, citations, considerations for use, and more.

Publisher Statements on AI

Several publishers have released statements or updated their author guidelines to include information about if AI tools can be used, how they can be used, and how they can be acknowledged appropriately. 

This list will be regularly updated and was last updated on March 11, 2024

Further Reading

Coffey, L. (n.d.). AI and Peer Review: Enemies or Allies? Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved March 11, 2024, from https://www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-innovation/artificial-intelligence/2023/10/24/ai-can-lessen-peer-review-woes-researchers

Editors’ Statement on the Responsible Use of Generative AI Technologies in Scholarly Journal Publishing—Kaebnick—2023—Hastings Center Report—Wiley Online Library. (n.d.). Retrieved March 11, 2024, from https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/hast.1507

Editors, T. (2023, September 25). Artificial Intelligence and Peer Review: Through the Editor’s Lens. De Gruyter Conversations. https://blog.degruyter.com/artificial-intelligence-and-peer-review-through-the-editors-lens/

GEAR-Up: Generative AI and External Knowledge-based Retrieval Upgrading Scholarly Article Searches for Systematic Reviews. (n.d.). Retrieved March 11, 2024, from https://arxiv.org/html/2312.09948v1

Liang, W., Zhang, Y., Cao, H., Wang, B., Ding, D., Yang, X., Vodrahalli, K., He, S., Smith, D., Yin, Y., McFarland, D., & Zou, J. (2023). Can large language models provide useful feedback on research papers? A large-scale empirical analysis (arXiv:2310.01783). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2310.01783

Schintler, L. A., McNeely, C. L., & Witte, J. (n.d.). A Critical Examination of the Ethics of AI-Mediated Peer Review.

Swaak, T. (2023). ‘We’re All Using It’: Publishing Decisions Are Increasingly Aided by AI. That’s Not Always Obvious. The Chronicle of Higher Educationhttps://www.chronicle.com/article/were-all-using-it-publishing-decisions-are-increasingly-aided-by-ai-thats-not-always-obvious

Thunström, A. O. (2022, September 1). We Asked GPT-3 to Write an Academic Paper about Itself—Then We Tried to Get It Published. Scientific American. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/we-asked-gpt-3-to-write-an-academic-paper-about-itself-mdash-then-we-tried-to-get-it-published/

Tools such as ChatGPT threaten transparent science; here are our ground rules for their use. (n.d.). Retrieved March 11, 2024, from https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00191-1

Using AI in Peer Review Is a Breach of Confidentiality – NIH Extramural Nexus. (2023, June 23). https://nexus.od.nih.gov/all/2023/06/23/using-ai-in-peer-review-is-a-breach-of-confidentiality/

Zhou, H. (2023, August 17). Generative AI, ChatGPT, and Google Bard: Evaluating the Impact and Opportunities for Scholarly Publishing. The Scholarly Kitchen. https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2023/08/17/generative-ai-chatgpt-and-google-bard-evaluating-the-impact-and-opportunities-for-scholarly-publishing/