Examples
Worked examples
- Is an instance
'The authors used ChatGPT-4 (OpenAI, accessed March 2024) to improve the readability of the Introduction; all content was reviewed and edited by the authors.'
Counter-examples
Looks similar, but isn't
- Not an instance
'AI was used in preparing this manuscript' (too vague to be operational)
Editorial commentary
The minimum disclosure typically includes: tool name and provider, version or date of access, the purpose of use, and the locus of use within the manuscript. Best practice adds the prompts used (or a representative sample) and a statement that the human authors verified the output. Generic statements such as ‘AI was used’ fail the operational test.
References
- ICMJE Recommendations (2023 update)
- COPE Position Statement on Authorship and AI Tools (2023)
- Elsevier Generative AI Policies (2023)
Also known as
AI use statement · Generative AI declaration
Machine-readable encodings
Use in your systems
xml
<role vocab="credit"
vocab-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/"
vocab-term="AI tool disclosure"
vocab-term-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/ai-tool-disclosure" />json
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"@type": "DefinedTerm",
"name": "AI tool disclosure",
"identifier": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/ai-tool-disclosure",
"description": "A statement within a scholarly work that identifies which generative AI tools were used, the version, the scope of use (e.g., language editing, code generation, figure creation), and which sections were affected, sufficient for a reader to assess the AI's role.",
"inDefinedTermSet": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/domain/generative-ai-use-and-disclosure/",
"url": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/ai-tool-disclosure",
"sameAs": [
"AI use statement",
"Generative AI declaration"
],
"license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}
