{"id":9697,"date":"2023-05-09T10:53:44","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T09:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/?p=9697"},"modified":"2023-05-09T10:56:42","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T09:56:42","slug":"writing-a-blopig-post-with-chatgpt-a-personal-take-on-using-ai-for-assisted-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/writing-a-blopig-post-with-chatgpt-a-personal-take-on-using-ai-for-assisted-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing a BLOPIG Post With ChatGPT: A Personal Take on Using AI for Assisted Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Disclaimer<\/em>: I used ChatGPT to improve the writing style of this article, in combination with some personal curation before obtaining a final version.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;ve probably heard it all already, from ChatGPT <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wikihow.com\/Get-Chatgpt-to-Write-Code\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">writing code<\/a> and doing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/how-chatgpt-changed-my-writing-as-an-esl-speaker\/\">proofreading<\/a> for you to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/a-chatgpt-rap-battle\/\">rap battle<\/a> between OPIG&#8217;s Antibodies and Small Molecules groups, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/?s=ChatGPT\">more<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whether you like it or not, ChaGPT has unleashed people&#8217;s creative side regarding applications and attempts to find shortcuts. Questionable? Absolutely!  <br><br>In this BLOPIG post, I show how I used ChatGPT to easily write a post summarising some material of my own intellectual property, which I presented as part of my group meeting talk. Mainly, I list some personal thoughts on the ethical concerns around using ChatGPT to assist your writing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To start off, I passed on content from my own publication draft to ChatGPT, asking to generate a blog post in plain English for BLOPIG. The outcome:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"625\" height=\"823\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image.png?resize=625%2C823&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image.png?resize=778%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 778w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image.png?resize=228%2C300&amp;ssl=1 228w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image.png?resize=768%2C1011&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image.png?resize=1166%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1166w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image.png?resize=624%2C822&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image.png?w=1215&amp;ssl=1 1215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Not bad. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, it made me realise a number of things:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>With great power comes great responsibility<\/em> [Uncle Ben &#8211; Spiderman].<br>You are responsible for the ethics that go into using ChatGPT. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-023-00191-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Are you faking expertise?<\/a> Are you being actually lazy or just being efficient? Think twice (or many more times) if you&#8217;re doing the right thing.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>It can significantly reduce the number of writing iterations but don&#8217;t take it at face value.<\/em><br>Can you actually trust the plain output? No.  <br>Never take its output as the ground truth, as Large Language Models such as ChatGPT often produce <a href=\"https:\/\/www.education.unsw.edu.au\/news-events\/news\/overconfident-chatgpt-and-generative-ai\">biased writing outputs<\/a>.<br>Keep in mind that whatever you produce as a scientist will be picked up by others, and prone to drive misinformation, if incorrect. It is OK to reduce mechanical iterations, but it&#8217;s NOT OK to skip quality control.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Be open about it.<\/em><br>You don&#8217;t want to set the wrong example for your colleagues. So, mention if you use it, how you used it, and it is fine to encourage efficiency, but not incentivising a culture of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-023-00381-x\" target=\"_blank\">scientific misconduct and plagiarism<\/a>. Don&#8217;t skip the step of producing quality ideas on your own. This is such a concern that publishers like Elsevier have already reacted by publishing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elsevier.com\/about\/policies\/publishing-ethics\/the-use-of-ai-and-ai-assisted-writing-technologies-in-scientific-writing\">guidelines<\/a> contemplating this possibility. While Nature Springer is working on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-023-00191-1\" target=\"_blank\">ways to spot AI-generated outputs<\/a>. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The bottom line<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>What are the dos and don&#8217;ts of using ChatGPT?<br><br>Yes, use it to have fun. Yes, use it to proofread or polish your writing. Yes, use it to summarise your own ideas. No, don&#8217;t use it to do the analysis and interpretation of your results. No, don&#8217;t copy and paste its direct output into your publication. No, don&#8217;t hide that you used it. Finally, NO, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-023-00191-1\">you can&#8217;t add ChatGPT as a contributing author<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disclaimer: I used ChatGPT to improve the writing style of this article, in combination with some personal curation before obtaining a final version. You&#8217;ve probably heard it all already, from ChatGPT writing code and doing proofreading for you to a rap battle between OPIG&#8217;s Antibodies and Small Molecules groups, and more. 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