Generative AI Policy

Artificial Intelligence (AI) usage in scientific writing may cause harm towards scientific clarity, integrity, and accountability. However, AI can also bring a good cause for author(s) to brainstorm ideas, help structuring the ideas, search relevant references, and/or paraphrase sentences. Neoclassical Legal Review: Journal of Law and Contemporary Issues (NLR-JoLCI) are not against the use of AI in such ways of writing, but still we condemn every abusive use of AI in scientific writing. Abusive acts in AI usage may include but not limited in type of acts as follow:

  1. Using AI as a full author of the manuscript (as a whole article)
  2. Generate the context of the manuscript using AI without appropriate human oversight
  3. Copy and paste every grammar corrections and/or paraphrased sentences from AI tools to manuscript without appropriate oversight
  4. Intentionally or accidentally falsifying the references, when paraphrase sentences using AI tools to avoid high similarity index

NLR-JoLCI take into account on Committee of Publication Ethics (COPE) position on the use of AI in scientific writing and decided to require every authors, whom within their manuscript are suspected a high percentage of AI writing, to disclose information of AI usage in their manuscript. AI usage disclosure includes several points as follow:

  1. The name and version of the AI tools;
  2. The purpose of using it (e.g: grammar correction, paraphrasing, translation, image generation, data analyzing, text summarization); and
  3. The extent of human oversight towards the use of AI

Authors are also required to disclose AI usage and its purpose in acknowledgement and method of their manuscript. The disclosure may state but not limited as following statement:

“Some parts of this manuscript were assisted by (AI tool name and version) to (describe purpose). All interpretations, analyzes, and conclusions are the author’s own responsibility”

Editors may request authors’ AI-prompt logs or further methodological explanations in AI portions of their manuscripts when necessary to support transparency. Failure to disclose information of AI usage will be deemed as a breach of publication ethics.

Authors are fully responsible for:

  1. The accuracy, originality, and truthfulness of every AI-generated or AI-assisted content in their manuscripts;
  2. Verifying that AI output does not contain false data, false citations and references, or plagiarized materials; and
  3. Ensuring AI tools have not accessed any confidential or restricted data

Statement Form On The Use Of Artificial Intelligence (Ai) In Writing Article Manuscripts can be Downloaded HERE