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[1] From: maurizio lana <maurizio.lana@uniupo.it>
Subject: Re: [Humanist] 36.354: ChatBot as co-author? (31)
[2] From: Henry Schaffer <hes@ncsu.edu>
Subject: Re: [Humanist] 36.354: ChatBot as co-author? (50)
[3] From: William Benzon <bbenzon@mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: [Humanist] 36.354: ChatBot as co-author? (13)
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Date: 2023-01-22 14:04:07+00:00
From: maurizio lana <maurizio.lana@uniupo.it>
Subject: Re: [Humanist] 36.354: ChatBot as co-author?
hi Willard,
would anyone understand that
> ChatGPT produces 'finite' text by combining strings of text whose
> meaning it knows nothing about, in a manner statistically consistent
> with the use of these strings in the texts with which it was programmed.
> The text produced therefore has no informational value or
> communicative intent.
> ChatGPT is not programmed to produce correct answers, but sequences of
> words that are statistically similar to those in the texts chosen by
> the programmers.
the insertion of chatGPT as coauthor wouldn't happen, i think; unless
one wants to draw attention to what has written.
Maurizio
Il 21/01/23 08:50, Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> ha
scritto:
> An article in Nature might interest some here: "ChatGPT listed as author
> on research papers: many scientists disapprove", at
> <https://tinyurl.com/4jc3j7ve>
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di un’autocostruzione, di uno sforzo
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Date: 2023-01-21 21:24:57+00:00
From: Henry Schaffer <hes@ncsu.edu>
Subject: Re: [Humanist] 36.354: ChatBot as co-author?
I read that Nature article earlier - wow, there is a lot of discussion of
the use of AI/ML text generation in the academe - and what struck me was
this part of the article:
The ethics of generative AI
There are already clear authorship guidelines that mean ChatGPT shouldn’t
be credited as a co-author, says Matt Hodgkinson, a research-integrity
manager at the UK Research Integrity Office in London, speaking in a
personal capacity. One guideline is that a co-author needs to make a
“significant scholarly contribution” to the article — which might be
possible with tools such as ChatGPT, he says. But it must also have the
capacity to agree to be a co-author, and to take responsibility for a study
— or, at least, the part it contributed to. “It’s really that second part
on which the idea of giving an AI tool co-authorship really hits a
roadblock,” he says.
I think that settles the issue.
--henry
On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 2:50 AM Humanist <humanist@dhhumanist.org> wrote:
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> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 36, No. 354.
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> Date: 2023-01-20 20:30:07+00:00
> From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk>
> Subject: ChatBot as co-author?
>
> An article in Nature might interest some here: "ChatGPT listed as author
> on research papers: many scientists disapprove", at
> <https://tinyurl.com/4jc3j7ve>
>
> Yours,
> WM
> --
> Willard McCarty,
> Professor emeritus, King's College London;
> Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews; Humanist
> www.mccarty.org.uk
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Date: 2023-01-21 08:41:42+00:00
From: William Benzon <bbenzon@mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: [Humanist] 36.354: ChatBot as co-author?
Willard,
Meanwhile Karsten Wenzlaff, Sebastian Spaeth, and Christopher Loreck have asked
their colleagues to make suggestions for guidelines to be followed when
crediting ChatGPT in a paper. They have compiled a list of relevant articles:
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mg5uHT3KXyAbNDo200EdQgYqs7JLg-yf-
oCEzLbenP8/edit#heading=h.5nqtknt597v9>
Bill B
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