Perspective | Generating scholarly content with ChatGPT: ethical challenges for medical publishing

Summary: The article discusses the ethical challenges posed by the use of ChatGPT, an AI chatbot, in medical publishing. The authors note that the impact of generative AI on medical publishing is currently unknown, but it could have substantial ethical implications, including copyright, attribution, plagiarism, and authorship issues. The authors argue that there is a growing need for robust AI author guidelines in scholarly publishing, and that the International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers has produced a white paper on AI ethics. They also raise concerns about the potential for ChatGPT to widen existing disparities in knowledge dissemination and scholarly publishing, as well as the potential for the chatbot to produce misleading or inaccurate content. The authors call on The Lancet Digital Health and the Lancet family to initiate discussions around the implications of AI-generated content within scholarly publishing and to create comprehensive guidance.

(By ChatGPT, reviewed and edited)

Article: Generating scholarly content with ChatGPT: ethical challenges for medical publishing – The Lancet Digital Health