AI Tool Policy

Policy on the Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

The Pijar Journal of Communication and Digital Media (PJCDM) acknowledges the rapid advancement of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) and AI-assisted technologies (such as ChatGPT, Claude, Midjourney, Grammarly, etc.) in academic writing and media analysis. To maintain the highest standards of the scholarly record, the journal adopts the following policy aligned with international publication ethics (COPE):

  1. AI and Authorship
  • AI is Not an Author: AI tools strictly cannot be listed as an author or co-author on any manuscript. AI tools lack legal standing, cannot take responsibility for the submitted work, and cannot assert the presence or absence of conflicts of interest.
  • Accountability: Authors are fully responsible and accountable for the entire content of their manuscript. This includes any text, media analysis, data interpretation, or critical argumentation produced or optimized by an AI tool. Authors are liable for any breach of publication ethics (e.g., plagiarism, data hallucination, or algorithmic bias) caused by AI usage.

 

  1. Allowed Usage for Authors

Authors are permitted to utilize AI and AI-assisted technologies solely for the following purposes:

  • Improving language readability, syntax structure, and overall quality (proofreading and grammar checking).
  • Assisting in initial brainstorming, conceptualizing theoretical frameworks, or organizing the manuscript outline.
  • Summarizing existing literature or extensive interview transcripts, provided that all generated summaries are manually verified against the original sources/primary data.

 

  1. Prohibitions
  • Generative AI must not be used to manipulate, alter, or fabricate raw research data, interview transcripts, audience surveys, or core empirical results.
  • Authors are strictly prohibited from generating entire critical arguments, communication textual analyses, or final conclusions via AI without human intervention, validation, and rigorous qualitative/quantitative interpretation.

 

  1. Disclosure and Transparency

Authors who use generative AI tools in the writing of a manuscript, production of graphical/media elements, or during textual data processing must disclose this use transparently.

  • Declaration: A specific section titled "Declaration of Generative AI in Scientific Writing" or within the "Acknowledgments" section must be included at the end of the manuscript (before References).
  • Details required: Authors must specify the tool used (e.g., ChatGPT 4o, Claude 3.5 Sonnet) and the exact scope and purpose of its use (e.g., "to enhance English language readability" or "to perform initial keyword clustering of media text corpora").

 

  1. Policy for Peer Reviewers and Editors
  • Confidentiality: Reviewers and editors are strictly prohibited from uploading submitted manuscripts (or any parts thereof, including raw research data) into generative AI tools. Uploading unpublished communication and media research to public AI platforms violates the author's confidentiality, data privacy, and proprietary rights.
  • Human Judgment: Critical assessment, contextual validation of media analysis, and final editorial recommendations must be the direct result of human intellectual engagement and expertise. The use of AI to generate peer review reports is unacceptable.