Policy on the Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Policy on the Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in „Odrodzenie i Reformacja w Polsce”

Artificial intelligence may provide support in creative and editorial processes; however, responsibility for the final form of any published content rests with the authors.

AI technology may serve as auxiliary tools in independent scholarly work, but they do not constitute a substitute for critical thinking, personal reflection, or a creative and individualized approach to the subject under analysis.

The use of AI systems should comply with the following principles:

1. Compliance with applicable law, including intellectual property law, personal data protection, and the right to privacy.

2. Compliance with ethical values, especially good practice and standards of research integrity.

A. Rules for authors

1. AI tools do not replace the creative process, nor should they be treated as authors or co-authors. Any use of AI technology must be transparent.
2. Authors are obliged to inform about the use of AI during the preparation of the article.
3. Materials generated by artificial intelligence may appear in a submitted text only where their presence is justified. In any such case, these materials must be clearly described. The description must include the name of the tool used, the date the material was created, and a description or characteristics of the input data.
4. AI-generated materials that are not properly identified shall be treated as plagiarism, with all consequences provided for in the journal’s editorial policies.
5. No separate disclosure is required for the use of AI for other purposes, for example at the stage of general inspiration or as a tool supporting literature searches, language correction, text composition, or the generation of keywords and abstracts.
6. The authors are fully and solely responsible for the accuracy, completeness, and impartiality of any output generated by AI, including the rigorous verification of sources cited by AI for errors and fictitious citations.

B. Rules for reviewers

1. Reviewers shall not use artificial intelligence tools in the process of evaluating submissions.
2. Reviewers should not submit their reviews as input to content generators, even if the aim is only to improve the language.
3. Under no circumstances shall reviewers use the texts under review, or any parts thereof, in prompts submitted to artificial intelligence generators, as this would violate confidentiality and the author’s proprietary rights.
4. If reviewers suspect that artificial intelligence generators have been used in a reviewed text without proper disclosure, they shall notify the editorial office and shall not independently examine the text using tools intended for that purpose.

C. Rules for editors

1. The journal’s editors shall not use submitted texts, or any parts thereof, in prompts submitted to artificial intelligence generators (except in the situations described in the following point), as this may violate confidentiality and the author’s proprietary rights.
2. If the use of artificial intelligence generators without proper disclosure is suspected in a submitted text, the editors shall take steps to verify and clarify the matter, including using appropriate, secure detectors based on artificial intelligence models.