Use of Artificial Intelligence
Generative AI tools (hereinafter referred to as AI tools), such as Large Language Models (LLM) or multimodal models, do not meet the criteria for authorship, as they do not have the appropriate contribution to be considered an author, and their affiliation to authorship cannot be guaranteed by signing a License Agreement.
When submitting a manuscript, authors are required to disclose the use of AI tools that were used at any stage of the research and / or preparation of the manuscript.
If AI tools were used during the research, in the "Materials and Methods" section, authors must clearly describe the specific tasks that were delegated to AI tools. If authors have used AI tools in the preparation of the manuscript, they must report the specific tasks delegated to the AI tools, indicate the full name of the AI tool used (with version number) in the appropriate section of the article according to GAIDeT (Generative AI Delegation Taxonomy), and state that the use was carried out under full human supervision, indicating the name of the manuscript author who provided this supervision.
The full list of GAIDeT tasks that can be delegated to AI is given below:
- Conceptualisation: idea generation; goal definition; question/hypothesis formulation; feasibility and risk assessment; preliminary hypothesis testing.
- Literature Review: searching and systematising; writing reviews; analysing market trends/patent landscapes; assessing novelty and identifying gaps.
- Methodology: study design; protocol development; method selection.
- Software Development and Automation: code generation; code optimisation; process automation; creation of data analysis algorithms.
- Data Management: collection; validation; cleaning; curation and organisation.
- Data Analysis: analysis; visualisation; reproducibility verification.
- Writing and Editing: text generation; proofreading and editing; summarising; drawing conclusions; tone adaptation; translation; reformatting; preparation of press releases/outreach materials.
- Ethical and Social Analysis: bias/discrimination analysis; ethical risk assessment; ethics compliance monitoring; privacy monitoring.
- Supervision and Guidance: quality assessment; trend identification; limitation definition; recommendations; publication support.
Authors can use the free GAIDeT Disclosure Generator to properly disclose the use of generative AI.
Images, photorealistic images, diagrams, and drawings generated by artificial intelligence should be marked with the note "Imagined with AI".
The appropriateness of the use of AI tools will be further assessed by the editor and specialists during the double-blind review stage.
Authors are required to confirm the absence of plagiarism in their manuscript, not limited to text, but also including images, tables, and other data generated using AI tools. All materials must be attributed and, where appropriate, fully cited.
Reviewers should refrain from loading manuscripts into AI tool software or using other AI technologies that may lead to a breach of confidentiality. Reviewers should not use AI tools to write their reports.
