Generative AI Usage Policy

Generative AI Usage Policy

For Authors

The development of generative artificial intelligence (generative AI) technology has had a significant impact on the academic writing process. In order to maintain transparency, scientific integrity, and academic accountability, the Journal of Health Media of the Makassar Health Polytechnic has established the following policy that applies specifically to authors:

1. Scope of Policy: This policy applies only to the use of AI in the manuscript writing process, not to the use of AI-based tools for data analysis or research methods (e.g., statistical modeling, AI-based medical image interpretation, etc.).
2. Permitted Use: Authors are permitted to use generative AI or AI-based tools solely to improve the readability, grammar, or sentence structure of the manuscript. Such use must be done under the full supervision of the author, and all AI outputs must be critically reviewed, verified, and edited by the author, given that AI can produce incorrect, incomplete, or biased information.
3. Author Responsibility: Authors are fully responsible for the entire content of the submitted manuscript, including factual accuracy, originality, and compliance with publication ethics. The use of AI does not diminish the author's academic responsibility.
4. Disclosure Obligation: Any use of generative AI or AI-based tools in writing the manuscript must be explicitly stated in two places:
• In the Acknowledgements section, by mentioning:
• the name of the AI tool/platform (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, etc.),
• the version or date of access (if available), and
• the purpose of use (e.g., “for language editing and readability improvement”).
• In a separate statement placed before the references (the format will be specified in the Author Guidelines).
5. Prohibition of AI Authorship: AI or AI-based tools may not be listed as authors or co-authors in the manuscript, either in the list of authors or in citations. Scientific authorship requires intellectual responsibility, the ability to approve the final version of the manuscript, and ethical commitment—all attributes that only humans can possess.
6. Requirements for Figures and Illustrations: The use of generative AI is not permitted to create, modify, or process scientific figures, graphs, or illustrations in manuscripts, unless the AI is part of the research method. In such exceptions, the use of AI must be described in detail and be reproducible in the research method section.