Postdigital Science and Education· 2026Q1
GenAI and Academic Writing
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Short summary
A Q1 journal editor outlines four key challenges of co-writing with GenAI: detection, sourcing, writing, and attitude, finding publisher guidelines opaque and impractical.
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Key points
- Four primary challenges in human-GenAI academic co-writing are detection, sourcing, writing, and attitude.
- Publisher guidelines for GenAI use in academic writing are deemed opaque and practically useless.
- Examples of ethically sound human-GenAI co-writing are presented.
- A zero-tolerance policy for fraudulent human-GenAI co-writing is announced for specific publications.
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Abstract
This paper exposes some of the main problems of cowriting with General Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) based on author’s experience of editing Springer Nature’s Postdigital Science and Education journal, Postdigital Science and Education Book Series, the Encyclopaedia of Postdigital Science and Education , and Chapters in Education. The paper outlines the four main challenges in facing scholarly editors—the challenge of detection, the challenge of sourcing, the challenge of writing, and the challenge of attitude. It reveals the opacity and practical uselessness of publisher guidelines, followed by some examples of methodologically and ethically sound human–GenAI cowriting. While presented conclusions are developed within the context of one publisher and its several publishing outlets, they are to an extent generalizable to contemporary academic publishing at least in the humanities and social sciences. The paper ends with an announcement of a zero-tolerance policy towards any kind of fraudulent human–GenAI cowriting in Postdigital Science and Education journal, Postdigital Science and Education Book Series, the Encyclopaedia of Postdigital Science and Education , and Chapters in Education, followed by an invitation for a broad postdigital dialogue about the future of academic writing with GenAI.
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