Comment by fho
6 months ago
> they give the AI a very detailed outline […]
Honestly, I think that's a tough one.
(a) it "feels" like you are doing work. Without you the LLM would not even start. (b) it is very close to how texts are generated without LLMs. Be it in academia, with the PI guiding the process of grad students, or in industry, with managers asking for documentation. In both cases the superior takes (some) credit for the work that is in large parts by others.
Don't see anything "tough" here.
At least in academia, if PI takes credit for student's work and does not list them as co-author, it's considered widely unethical. The rules there are simple - someone contributed to the text, they get onto the author list.
If we had same same rule for blogs - "this post is authored by fho and ChatGPT" - then I'd be completely satisfied, as this would be sufficient AI disclosure.
As for industry, I think the rules are very different place-by-place. In some places the authorship does not even come up - the slide deck/document can contain copies from random internet sites, or some previous version of the doc, and the reference will only be present if there is a need (say to lend an authority)