STATEMENT ON THE USE OF GenAI

The editorial board of the journal Sacrum et Decorum considers the use of artificial intelligence tools to produce a research article or parts thereof (such as an abstract or bibliography), or any other text intended for the journal, to be harmful, unacceptable and incompatible with rigorous and honest academic work.

In line with COPE’s position on such practices, we consider that artificial intelligence does not meet the criteria for authorship, as AI tools are not natural persons and cannot be held legally responsible; consequently, they cannot be recognised as authors or co-authors of articles.

The use of artificial intelligence in a submitted article may result in allegations of plagiarism, lack of research integrity, duplicate publication, or a breach of other principles of publication ethics, as AI-generated content often contains erroneous data, is based on existing research findings, and lacks attribution.

We would like to remind authors submitting their texts to Sacrum et Decorum that they bear full responsibility for rigorous academic work, their own research, and its presentation in the submitted article. This also applies to content generated by AI tools and included in the article. We require authors to provide a written statement confirming that the article, its excerpts and photographs were not created using artificial intelligence tools.

It is not permitted to include images created by artificial intelligence tools or generative models in the text.

The editorial board of Sacrum et Decorum permits the use of generative AI/LLM tools solely for the purpose of improving the language and readability of the article.

We would like to inform reviewers that the use of AI tools to review an article may result in a breach of confidentiality and publishing ethics due to the likelihood of the data contained in the reviewed text being made public in AI model databases. We strongly advise reviewers against using such tools.