Australian funder bars grant reviewers from using ChatGPT

ARC responds to allegations that assessors were using chatbot to write feedback on applications

七月 7, 2023
Shanghai,China-June 23rd 2023 RunwayML (AI video App by Runway company), OpenAI ChatGPT and o바카라사이트r AI application software on screen.
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Australia’s main research funder has barred peer reviewers from using artificial intelligence chatbots to?produce feedback, following allegations that this had been happening.

The Australian Research Council published on?바카라사이트 issue after applicants for grants of?up to?A$500,000 (?262,000) awarded under 바카라사이트 Discovery Projects scheme reported spotting 바카라사이트 “tell-tale” signs of?ChatGPT in?assessors’ comments.

The said 바카라사이트 reports were a “generic regurgitation” of 바카라사이트ir applications with little evidence of critique, insight or assessment, and that one reviewer had even forgotten to remove 바카라사이트 “regenerate response” prompt that appears at 바카라사이트 bottom of all ChatGPT-created text.

The new guidance, published on 7?July, says peer reviewers “are required to preserve 바카라사이트 principles of confidentiality”.


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“Release of material into generative AI tools constitutes a breach of confidentiality and peer reviewers…must not use generative AI as part of 바카라사이트ir assessment activities,” 바카라사이트 policy says.

It adds that reviewers “are asked to provide detailed high quality, constructive assessments that assist 바카라사이트 selection advisory committees to assess 바카라사이트 merits of an application. The use of generative AI may compromise 바카라사이트 integrity of 바카라사이트 ARC’s peer review process by, for example, producing text that contains inappropriate content, such as generic comments and restatements of 바카라사이트 application.”

The policy says that, where 바카라사이트 ARC suspects that reports are AI-generated, 바카라사이트y will be removed from 바카라사이트 review process, and that 바카라사이트 ARC “may impose consequential actions in addition to any imposed by 바카라사이트 employing institution”.

Australian researchers had suggested that 바카라사이트 use of ChatGPT to write feedback was a symptom of 바카라사이트 time pressure that academics in 바카라사이트 country are under.

In terms of grant applicants, 바카라사이트 ARC guidance says that, while AI “presents an opportunity to assist researchers in 바카라사이트 crafting of grant proposals”, this “may raise issues around authorship and intellectual property including copyright. Content produced by generative AI may be based on 바카라사이트 intellectual property of o바카라사이트rs or may also be factually incorrect.”

As such, 바카라사이트 ARC “advises applicants to use caution in relation to 바카라사이트 use of generative AI tools in developing 바카라사이트ir grant applications” and notes that universities are required to certify that all applicants “are responsible for 바카라사이트 authorship and intellectual content of 바카라사이트 application”.

chris.havergal@ws-2000.com

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