Policies on artificial intelligence chatbots among academic publishers: a cross-sectional audit.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are novel computer programs that can generate text or content in a natural language format. Academic publishers are adapting to the transformative role of AI chatbots in producing or facilitating scientific research. This study aimed to examine the policies established by scientific, technical, and medical academic publishers for defining and regulating the authors' responsible use of AI chatbots.

Methods

This study performed a cross-sectional audit on the publicly available policies of 162 academic publishers, indexed as members of the International Association of the Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers (STM). Data extraction of publicly available policies on the webpages of all STM academic publishers was performed

SUBMITTER: Bhavsar D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11869395 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature