Stephen Royle@steveroyle@biologists.social

I saw this elsewhere and thought I’d repost here. One lab’s policy on AI use in academic writing.

“The only reason you’ll ever need to not write with AI”

carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the-on

#academicchatter

The Carlson LabThe only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI — The Carlson LabOver the last year, our lab has been developing a policy on AI use. To do this, we did three main things: We read a lot of academic publications and tech news. We set up an #ai channel on our lab Slack to share news, experiences, and memes. We had several long and grueling lab meetings talk
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Kim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷@KimSJ@mastodon.social

Replying to @⁨steveroyle@biologists.social⁩

@steveroyle
My daughter (biologist) advises her undergrad students that if they want to use AI they should only use it for drawing diagrams.

In the light of the recent revelation that AI can produce near-identical output for multiple people, even that seems risky for published papers if you want to be sure you’re safe from plagiarism accusations.