Authorship in the AI Age
The authorship of a recent paper on the Erdős Unit Distance Problem raises questions about the role of AI in academic publishing. OpenAI is credited as the author, but this situation highlights the challenges of attributing authorship to AI tools. The article discusses the implications of AI contributions and the need for clear guidelines in future publications.
- ▪The Erdős Unit Distance Problem paper lists only 'OpenAI' as an author.
- ▪Most publishers follow the Committee on Publication Ethics' stance that AI tools cannot be listed as authors.
- ▪OpenAI's paper does not list the model as an author but credits the organization instead.
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The technical paper for the Erdős Unit Distance Problem lists only "OpenAI" as an author. When Bill posted on Sunday about the Erdős distance problems, he mentioned the names of OpenAI researchers who prompted and checked the proof. Sebastien Bubeck of OpenAI reached out directly and later as a comment saying this was really an OpenAI-wide achievement, and we shouldn't just single out people at the end of the funnel. I agree with Bubeck for this paper, but it brings up some challenging authorship issues for the future.Most publishers follow the position of the Committee on Publication Ethics that AI tools cannot be listed as an author of a paper.AI tools cannot meet the requirements for authorship as they cannot take responsibility for the submitted work.
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