Nature refuses to publish images and videos generated by artificial intelligence

IT House News on June 13, the famous scientific journal "Nature", founded in 1869, recently announced in an editorial that in order to ensure the integrity, transparency and ethics of research, it will not publish any research using generative formulas. Pictures, videos or illustrations created by artificial intelligence (generative AI) tools, unless they are articles related to artificial intelligence.

Generative artificial intelligence is a technology that generates entirely new content by training models and leveraging large amounts of data. For example, ChatGPT and Midjourney are two popular generative AI tools that can generate text and images respectively. Although this technology has broad application prospects, "Nature" magazine believes that it also brings some difficult problems to solve.

Because generative AI tools cannot provide information about their data sources, editors, publishers, and readers cannot verify their accuracy and authenticity. This goes against the principles of integrity and transparency in scientific publishing. Second, generative AI tools may violate the privacy and intellectual property rights of data owners because they are often trained using a large number of unauthorized copyrighted works. Third, generative AI tools may exacerbate the spread of disinformation. For example, deepfake is a technology that uses generative artificial intelligence to create fake videos that can be used to mislead the public or slander others.

Therefore, Nature magazine has decided to ban the use of generative artificial intelligence tools to create visual content for the foreseeable future. All commissioned artists, filmmakers, illustrators and photographers must confirm that this technology is not used when submitting their work.

However, "Nature" magazine does not completely reject artificial intelligence. IT House notes that the magazine still allows the use of generative artificial intelligence-assisted text in articles, as long as it is clearly stated in the methods or acknowledgments section. Authors must provide sources for all data, including data generated with the assistance of artificial intelligence. However, Nature in no way endorses any generative AI tool as an author of the paper.

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