AI – general guidelines
Akadémiai Kiadó as a publisher does not preclude the use of AI, but considers it important to regulate it. The staff keeps track of the dynamic development of this field and will update this policy regularly.
The Publishing House is interested in the responsible use of AI for the benefit of the research community, our authors, editors, readers and collaborators.
The Publishing House will act responsibly and ethically in the use, design, development and implementation of AI solutions. It seeks to reduce or prevent the potential negative impacts of AI, whether social or environmental.
General Guidelines of Akadémiai Kiadó on Artificial Intelligence
The author of a manuscript is the natural person who creates the manuscript and authenticates it with their name. This natural person assumes full responsibility for the content, form and language quality of the manuscript by submitting it. Artificial intelligence or artificial intelligence assisted technologies cannot act as author. These technologies are not suitable for developing a complete scientific text or a coherent train of thought within a scientific text.
However, the publisher does not prohibit the use of AI by authors with the proviso that generative AI or AI-enabled technologies shall not be used for content creation, but only for content styling (e.g., language revision, correction, data visualisation). The use of AI always requires human control. In the case of multi-authored works, all authors must be aware of the use of the technology, and no manuscript shall be accepted unless all authors have made clear prior to submission that they have consented to the last version of the manuscript.
If authors have used generative AI and/or AI-enhanced tools in the creation of the manuscript, they must indicate this in the publication (e.g., in a footnote or in the imprint), specifying in which chapter or chapters, for what purpose, and what tool was used.
For works in which AI has been used in the writing of the manuscript because the topic is artificial intelligence or some related phenomena, the authors are obliged to clarify the exact procedure at the beginning of the publication, in the description of the methodology.
The rapid development of generative artificial intelligence in the field of imaging raises a number of copyright issues. As a publishing house, we take copyright issues seriously and deal with them rigorously, striving for ethical practices in all cases. As long as the copyright issues related to AI-generated and AI-assisted images and videos are not resolved conclusively, the Publishing House will not permit the use of images or videos created or modified using generative AI or AI-assisted tools in manuscripts submitted to the publisher. This applies to the highlighting, blurring or removal of certain elements of images or videos, and the addition of any new element to the original. Adjustments to brightness, contrast or colour balance using artificial intelligence are acceptable, as long as the change does not alter the content.
Exceptions:- Cases in which generative AI or AI-enabled tools are the subject of the manuscript or a methodological part of the research. In such cases, authors are required to clarify in the methodology section of the manuscript exactly why, what for, how and which AI tool was used.
- The creation and visualisation of graphs, charts and tables by the authors.
Akadémiai Kiadó stipulates that the publisher’s readers shall not feed the reviewed manuscripts or parts of manuscripts into any generative artificial intelligence tools (e.g., DeepSeek, ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini or LLaMA) under any circumstances.