Article title: Editors’ Statement on the Responsible Use of Generative AI Technologies in Scholarly Journal Publishing
Authors: Gregory E. Kaebnick, David Christopher Magnus, Audiey Kao, Mohammad Hosseini, David Resnik, Veljko Dubljevic, Christy Rentmeester, Bert Gordijn, and MarkJ.Cherry
Journal: AJOB Neuroscience
Bibliometrics: Volume 14, Number 04, pages 337–340
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/21507740.2023.2257181
The editorial “Editors’ Statement on the Responsible Use of Generative AI Technologies in Scholarly Journal Publishing” made an incorrect statement and then references a Statement from the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) (2) in a misleading way. The article says that to the best of the authors’ knowledge, previous position statements have not addressed the responsibilities of reviewers to authors, referencing the WAME statement (Article Reference #5). However, the WAME statement does explicitly deal with the responsibilities of reviewers to authors in its Recommendation #4: “Editors and peer reviewers should specify, to authors and each other, any use of chatbots in the evaluation of the manuscript and generation of reviews and correspondence. If they use chatbots in their communications with authors and each other, they should explain how they were used. Editors and reviewers are responsible for any content and citations generated by a chatbot. They should be aware that chatbots retain the prompts fed to them, including manuscript content, and supplying an author’s manuscript to a chatbot breaches confidentiality of the submitted manuscript” (2).
Therefore, after stating that the responsibility of reviewers to authors hadn’t been previously addressed, the authors proceed to cite the first statement that actually addresses it.