Normalising transparency: an argument for requiring generative AI use declarations in all manuscripts—with a call for commentaries

i We adopt the definition used by Nature portfolio journals: 'AI-assisted improvements to human-generated texts for readability and style, and to ensure that the texts are free of errors in grammar, spelling, punctuation and tone.These AI-assisted improvements may include wording and formatting changes to the texts, but do not include generative editorial work and autonomous content creation'.18 As Hosseini and colleagues 16 note, using the shorthand 'GenAI' for generative AI: 'one could argue that the difference between writing assistance and text creation is gradual, and that the former could… morph into the latter, [but] distinguishing between the two is still possible.This is because GenAI delivers what users request.If users ask GenAI to improve grammar, style and readability [of a text they have manually drafted], that will be the generated outcome, but if they ask GenAI to create new sentences or expand existing text, that is what they will get' (p729).However, Hosseini et al also note that, even in ORCID iDs