Open Access Maced J Med Sci. 2023 Jan 30; 11(A):83-86. 83 Scientifc Foundation SPIROSKI, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia Open Access Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences. 2023 Jan 30; 11(A):83-86. https://doi.org/10.3889/oamjms.2023.11502 eISSN: 1857-9655 Category: A - Basic Sciences Section: Medical Informatics Republished with the permission of WAME Chatbots, ChatGPT, and Scholarly Manuscripts: WAME Recommendations on ChatGPT and Chatbots in Relation to Scholarly Publications Chris Zielinski 1 , Margaret Winker 2 * , Rakesh Aggarwal 3 , Lorraine Ferris 4 , Markus Heinemann 5 , Jose Florencio Lapeña 6 , Sanjay Pai 7 , Edsel Ing 8 , Leslie Citrome 9 1 Vice President, WAME, Centre for Global Health, University of Winchester, UK; 2 Trustee, WAME; 3 President, WAME, Associate Editor, Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology; Director, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Puducherry, India; 4 Trustee, WAME; Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Canada; 5 Treasurer, WAME; Editor-in-Chief, The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon; 6 Secretary, WAME; Editor, Philippine Journal of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery; Professor, University of the Philippines Manila, Philippines; 7 Director, WAME; Working Committee, The National Medical Journal of India; 8 Director, WAME; Section Editor, Canadian Journal of Ophthalmology; Professor, University of Toronto; 9 Director, WAME; Editor-in-Chief, Current Medical Research and Opinion;Topic Editor for Psychiatry for Clinical Therapeutics; Clinical Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, New York Medical College Abstract Journals have begun to publish papers, in which chatbots such as ChatGPT are shown as coauthors. The following WAME recommendations are intended to inform editors and help them develop policies regarding chatbots for their journals, to help authors understand how use of chatbots might be attributed in their work, and address the need for all journal editors to have access manuscript screening tools. In this rapidly evolving feld, we expect these recommendations to evolve as well. Edited by: Mirko Spiroski Citation: Zielinski C, Winker M, Aggarwal R, Ferris L, Heinemann M, Florencio Lapeña J, Pai S, Ing E, Citrome L for the WAME Board. Chatbots, ChatGPT, and Scholarly Manuscripts: WAME Recommendations on ChatGPT and Chatbots in Relation to Scholarly Publications. Open Access Maced J Med Sci. 2023 Jan 30; 11(A):83-86. https://doi.org/10.3889/oamjms.2023.11502 Keywords: ChatGPT; Chatbots; Scholarly manuscripts; WAME recommendations *Correspondence: Margaret Winker, Trustee, WAME. E-mail: margaretwinker@gmail.com Received: 20-Jan-2023 Revised: 26-Jan-2023 Accepted: 28-Jan-2023 Copyright: © 2023 Chris Zielinski, Margaret Winker, Rakesh Aggarwal, Lorraine Ferris, Markus Heinemann, Jose Florencio Lapeña, Sanjay Pai, Edsel Ing, Leslie Citrome Funding: This research did not receive any fnancial support Competing Interests: All of the authors report that they have no competing interests aside from any affliations as editors Open Access: This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0) Introduction A chatbot is a tool “[d]riven by [artifcial intelligence] (AI), automated rules, natural-language processing, and machine learning (ML).[to] process data to deliver responses to requests of all kinds” [1]. AI “broadly refers to the idea of computers that can learn and make decisions in a human-like way” [2]. Chatbots have been used in recent years by many companies, including those in healthcare, for providing customer service, routing requests, or gathering information. ChatGPT is a recently-released chatbot that “is an example of generative AI, because it can create something completely new that has never existed before” [3], in the sense that it can use existing information organized in new ways. ChatGPT has many potential uses, including “summarizing long articles, for example, or producing a frst draft of a presentation that can then be tweaked” [4]. It may help researchers, students, and educators generate ideas [5], and even write essays of a reasonable quality on a particular topic [6]. Universities are having to revamp how they teach as a result [7]. ChatGPT has many limitations, as recognized by its own creators: “ChatGPT sometimes writes plausible-sounding but incorrect or non-sensical answers. Ideally, the model would ask clarifying questions when the user provided an ambiguous query. Instead, our current models usually guess what Since 2002