DALL-E imagines AI writing content.
When you read an article now online, do you really know who wrote it? Human or AI? Or some hybrid combination? How would you know? Are you sure? Can you be sure?
I read an interesting article by Kester Brewin describing the AI Transparency Statement he created for his latest book. This seems, to me, to be a useful set of assertions for such works.
But it’s not just books. There are plenty of articles out there, vying for our attention, and it would be useful to be able to tell up-front how they have been created. Of course, such a declaration is still only an assertion, but over the medium- to long-term period, significant abuse by an individual author is likely to be noticed and their reputation commensurately damaged.
There is nothing inherently wrong with using AI tools. But their use should be disclosed, along with the capacity & extent to which they have been employed – especially where they have been used to actually write some or all of the content.
I took Kester’s original statement and extended it slightly to also cover image generation, since I use AI to generate illustrations for my articles. Whilst I credit these in the captions, it only seems reasonable to declare this up-front along with the extent to which AI has been used to write or develop the text itself. After all, we expect authors to credit ideas or creations or quotations from other writers, don’t we?
What do other article authors think about this?
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