At the end of 2022, the appearance of ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot with amazing writing ability, caused a great sensation in academia. The chatbot turned out to be very capable, but also capable of deception, and the news broke that several researchers had listed the chatbot (including its earlier version) as co-authors of their academic papers. In response, Nature and Science expressed their position that this chatbot cannot be listed as an author in the papers they publish. Since an AI chatbot is not a human being, in the current legal system, the text automatically generated by an AI chatbot cannot be a copyrighted work; thus, an AI chatbot cannot be an author of a copyrighted work. Current AI chatbots such as ChatGPT are much more advanced than search engines in that they produce original text, but they still remain at the level of a search engine in that they cannot take responsibility for their writing. For this reason, they also cannot be authors from the perspective of research ethics.

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人工智能聊天机器人可以成为学术文章的作者吗？

2022年底，具有惊人书写能力的人工智能（AI）聊天机器人ChatGPT的出现，引起了学术界的巨大轰动。事实证明，该聊天机器人非常强大，但也具有欺骗能力，有消息称，几位研究人员已将该聊天机器人（包括其早期版本）列为其学术论文的共同作者。对此，《自然》和《科学》杂志表达了他们的立场，即该聊天机器人不能在他们发表的论文中被列为作者。由于AI聊天机器人不是人，在现行法律体系下，AI聊天机器人自动生成的文本不能成为受版权保护的作品；因此，人工智能聊天机器人不能是受版权保护的作品的作者。目前的人工智能聊天机器人（例如ChatGPT）比搜索引擎先进得多，因为它们可以生成原始文本，但它们仍然停留在搜索引擎的水平，因为它们无法对自己的写作负责。因此，从研究伦理的角度来看，他们也不能成为作者。