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Commitments regarding the use of generative artificial intelligence within the editorial team.
Preamble
The exponential growth in the use of generative AI heralds a revolution that has far-reaching implications for the media and the news sector in particular. Whilst it presents an opportunity for growth for publishers and can help improve the service provided to readers, the use of generative AI must under no circumstances be at the expense of the quality and reliability of information or of compliance with the fundamental principles of journalistic ethics as set out in the company’s charter.
Building on the trust placed in it by its readers, the management and editorial team of La Revue des Sciences de Gestion have decided, in the interests of transparency, to publish the rules they have established regarding the use of generative AI in the editorial team’s production of editorial content: the collection, formatting, prioritisation and editing of information.
The content of the publication is developed by the editorial team in accordance with the publication’s editorial policy and must not be dictated by AI.
1. Rules applicable to editorial staff
The use of generative AI must be aimed solely at improving the quality of editorial content and may only be carried out under the supervision and verification of the editorial team, within the scope of their responsibilities and those of the editor-in-chief.
- In this context, authors and journalists will be able to use this technology, in particular for preparatory work such as summarising documents or data, translation, and spell-checking or grammar checking.
In any event, supervision by editorial teams must involve verifying the results generated by the AI.
Transparency regarding the conditions under which news content is produced is a cornerstone of strengthening the relationship of trust between our readers, our journalists, our authors, and the press publications we edit.
As such, a disclosure must be included to inform the reader when content is not primarily the result of human activity and where the use of generative AI may have had a significant impact on the information published or disseminated.
Such a disclosure is therefore necessary, in particular, where generative AI is used to produce a synthesis, a summary, an automated translation, a conversion between editorial formats (e.g. text to speech), the automated updating of content based on newly available data, the creation of illustrations, or the factual synthesis of election, sporting or other results.
- Particularly in the case of images, sounds and videos, the use of AI must not mislead the reader. The artificial nature of the content must be obvious to the average reader or, failing that, must be stated on the content itself. It must not be used to recreate a reality for which the editorial team has no footage.
2. Rules applicable to authors
This charter is supplemented by the ethical rules applicable to authors, which incorporate the “Author Policy on AI”.
3. Rules applicable to reviewers
This charter is supplemented by the standards of the integrity and probity applicable to reviewers in the editorial process.