Civic education THE ETHICS OF USING AI IN THE WRITING PROCESS 11 CLASS WORK In 2024, The American Authors Guild published an article: AI Best Practices for Authors. Read a short extract below and answer the questions. 2. If you do use AI to develop story lines or character or to generate text, be sure to rewrite it in your own voice before adopting it. If you are claiming authorship, then you should be the author of your work. Below are our recommended best practices and explanations for using generative AI ethically: 1. Do not use AI to write for you. Use it only as a tool, a paintbrush for writing. It is your writing, thinking, and voice that make you the writer you are. AI-generated text is not your authorship and not your voice. Even if trained on your own work, AI-generated text is simply a regurgitation of what it is trained on and adds nothing new or original to the world. By definition, it is neither original nor art. When you use AI to generate text that you include in a work, you are not writing you are prompting. Choosing to be a professional prompter is not the same as being a writer, and the output is not authorship or creative. Use AI to support, not replace, the creative process. 3. If you incorporate AI-generated text, characters, or plot in your manuscript, you must disclose it to your publisher as publishing contracts require the authors to represent and warrant that the manuscript is original to the author. AI-generated material is not considered original and it is not copyrightable. Inclusion of more than a very minimal amount of AI-generated text in the final manuscript will violate your warranty to the publisher. [ ] 4. You should also disclose to the reader whether you incorporated any AI-generated content in the book. They have a right to know as many will feel duped if they are not advised. It is not necessary though to disclose use of generative AI tools like grammar checking or when it is employed merely as a tool for brainstorming, idea generation, researching, or for copyediting. [ ] Adapted from: https://authorsguild.org/resource/ ai-best-practices-for-authors 1. Have you ever used AI to write text? When? Why? 2. What do you think about the expression When you use AI to generate text that you include in work, you are not writing you are prompting ? 3. Do you think AI could replicate your writing style ? 4. Do you agree with the article in that you should disclose to both publisher and readers that you have used AIgenerated material? 5. How ethical is it to use AI without citing or acknowledging sources or without proper use of copyright? 6. What could an ethical use of AI be to support a writer s work, in your opinion? 264 People and instruments