ACL 2023 Policy on AI Writing Assistance

Text generation models have been long available, and they are powering many existing tools assisting with input or the linguistic form of the text, like predictive keyboards or language checkers. However, the latest generation of models, exemplified by chatGPT and Galactica, is widely presented as something that handles both language and content: something that can produce long stretches of text of sufficient quality to serve as drafts of the user’s own work. This development is prompting schools, journals and conferences (including ICML) to update their authorship policies to address this trend.