Prominent academic publishers agreed that #ChatGPT and Co. should not be listed as the author of a scientific paper, as AI is not responsible for the content. Did everyone listen? We conducted a search in WoS and Scopus and found 14 papers with ChatGPT as the "author":
New study: "The practice of automatically assigning senior members of departments as co-authors on all submitted manuscripts may be common in the health sciences…Those admitting to this practice find[] it unjustified in most cases." https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-55966-x
Here's an argument that #ChatGPT can't be an "author". OK. But it calls this view "conservative" & the alt view "liberal". Why these terms? Apparently it's liberal to argue "that grounding authorship or…agency-entailing statuses in mentality represents a misguided 'logocentric metaphysics' of appearance vs. reality, because even tho such a distinction might be pragmatically useful, it problematically justifies power relations." https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13347-024-00715-1
@djlink Which is funny because in many juristictions like #Germany, #AI can't create #copyrightable output by the fact that only a natural person can have #Authorship and ony things with Authorship have #Copyright.
But then again we also don't have #PublicDomain but only permissible licenses and lapsed Copyright as one can't abdicate or deny Authorship!
the most 2023-internet thing is that when you google "public domain icons" you mainly get sites which offer commercial or limited-use icons, but you get their icons that show the idea of "public domain".
lots of copyright symbols with a big NO symbol over it, available to license for limited personal use for 5.99$ a month
I keep reading misconceptions about writing for @medium, which annoy me as a long-time subscriber and writer for that platform. To try to clear some things up:
Authors can set for each story whether it is behind the paywall (and thus eligible for earnings) or not.
Authors can share unlimited "friends links" to bypass the paywall.
The subscription fee ($5/mo or $50/yr) gives unlimited access to all stories on Medium, plus a Mastodon account on me.dm.
For example, an author "may modify material originally generated by AI technology to such a degree that the modifications meet the standard for copyright protection."