In a landmark decision, Springer Nature, the world’s largest academic publisher, announced this week that ChatGPT cannot be credited as an author on anything that Springer publishes.
ChatGPT is a natural language processing system developed by OpenAI, a research laboratory based in San Francisco.
ChatGPT is a powerful artificial intelligence system that is capable of generating human-like text when given a prompt. The system has been used to generate text for a variety of applications, including poetry, novels, and even scientific papers.
However, Springer Nature has decided that ChatGPT cannot be credited as an author on any work that is published by the company. The publisher stated that “the responsibility for the content of a publication must rest with a human author” and that “the use of artificial intelligence systems to generate content is not yet accepted practice in academic publishing.”
This decision is a major setback for OpenAI, which had hoped to use ChatGPT to revolutionize the way scientific papers are written. The company had already submitted several papers written by ChatGPT to Springer Nature for consideration.
Springer Nature’s decision is also likely to have a significant impact on the wider academic publishing industry. Many other publishers are likely to follow Springer Nature’s lead and refuse to accept papers written by artificial intelligence systems.
The decision also raises important questions about the future of artificial intelligence in academic publishing. It is clear that artificial intelligence systems have the potential to revolutionize the way scientific papers are written, but it is also clear that publishers are not yet ready to accept them as authors.
It remains to be seen how the academic publishing industry will respond to this decision. In the meantime, it is clear that ChatGPT will not be credited as an author on any work published by Springer Nature.