Ethical Concerns about Using AI-Generated Text in Scientific Research

Abstract

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been rapidly integrated into many scientific fields, and its potential to revolutionize scientific research is vast. AI has been extensively used in generating text, where algorithms such as ChatGPT have shown promise in developing coherent and convincing responses to prompts. However, using AI-generated text in scientific research raises ethical concerns like transparency, bias, informed consent, privacy, and accountability. AI-generated text, specifically ChatGPT, can be used for any purpose, such as generating research ideas, finding the research gap in specific topics, summarizing unlimited published articles, etc. However, researchers should be aware that the outcomes of ChatGPT are sometimes misleading, or the information is fabricated. In this extended abstract, I provided the significant findings of conducting qualitative research about the ethical concerns while using ChatGPT in scientific research.

Keywords: scientific research; ChatGPT